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This Sporting Life : Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960 by Robert Colls is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"This is a history of sport as one of England's great civil cultures. It addresses 'sports' as athletic competitions, 'sport' as fun and games and showing off, and sporting occasions as a mixture of both. The subject does not lend itself to simple definitions, and the book does not try to impose any. By and large, it takes sport as it found it in the lives of the people. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from oil paintings to handbills, from the criminal to the constitutional, all the chapters
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Colls
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198208334
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Sports, Social History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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