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Victorian and Edwardian Sportsman, The (Shire Library)
Victorian and Edwardian Sportsman The - Shire Library
Author: Richard Tames
Traditional British sports were informal, spontaneous, regional, brutal and tainted by gambling, drunkenness and disorder. Victorian Britain made sport sporting respectable, rule-bound and a nationwide obsession. Competitiveness became codified. A novel cult of amateurism battled against the emergence of commercialisation. Ancient sports, such a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780747806660
ISBN-10: 0747806667
Publication Date: 12/15/2007
Pages: 40
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Shire Books
Book Type: Paperback
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