Robert Colls (Professor of Cultural Professor of Cultural History

Broschiertes Buch

This Sporting Life

Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

Beschreibung

This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.

Autor

Robert Colls is Professor of History at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in South Shields, where he first played football on a disused colliery waggon-way. Much of his academic career has been based in Leicester, which is also where he played his last game of football in the local Sunday League. When it became clear that he couldn't play again, he knew that something trivial and yet hugely important had changed for him. He is married with two grown-up daughters and three wonderful grandchildren, and is the author of the acclaimed George Orwell: English Rebel, published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780192870223
• ISBN-10: 019287022X
• Artikelnr.: 64810423