| Description |
ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; cm |
| Contents |
1. "An excellent means of combating fresh air, exercise and society": females on the fairways, 1890-1914 -- 2. Still going after all these years: text, truth and the racing calendar -- 3. The proto-globalisation of horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo-American interconnections -- 4. What went wrong with counting? Thinking about sport and class in Britain and Ireland -- 5. Australian sport history: from the founding years to today -- 6. The tyranny of deference: Anglo-Australian relations and rugby union before World War II -- 7. Boxers united: trade unionism in British boxing in the 1930s -- 8. Deeply honoured: the rise and significance of the British sporting award, 1945-c.1970 -- 9. "In a Yorkshire like way": cricket and the construction of regional identity in nineteenth-century Yorkshire -- 10. Egg and chips with the Connellys: remembering 1966 -- 11. Wray Vamplew: a bibliography 1969-2008 |
| Notes |
Published as a special issue of Sport in history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vamplew, Wray.
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Sports -- History.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Collins, Tony, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0415575001 (hbk.) |
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9780415575003 (hbk.) |
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