This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

by Robert Colls

Book Overview

Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?

In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's history through its great sporting cultures, from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198208332
• ISBN13: 9780198208334
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.3"