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Gary Armstrong

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I

Rings of Steel, 1720-1970

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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology with sports studies and historical research the text expertl… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Bell, Matthew
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-63547-3
  • EAN: 9783030635473
  • Produktnummer: 38489427
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.2 cm 536 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 536

Über den Autor


Matthew Bell has served as editor of the Sheffield United FC magazine Flashing Blade since 1989 and has written a weekly column in the Green 'Un and Sheffield Star newspapers since 1993. Along with Dr Gary Armstrong, he co-authored Fit and Proper? Conflicts and Conscience in an English Football Club (2010), the definitive account of the recent history of Sheffield United FC, and Steel and Grace: Sheffield's Olympic Track and Field Medallists (2014). With Sheffield historian Chris Hobbs, he is also the co-author of Shocking Sheffield: Forgotten Tales of Murder, Mishap and Gruesome Misdemeanour, Volumes 1 and 2 (2012), and Long Shadows Over Sheffield (2014).Gary Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City University of London, UK. Amongst several projects on sport, criminology, and surveillance, he is the author of Football Hooligans: Knowing the Score; Blade Runners: Lives in Football; and Sheffield United FC: The Biography. In the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology series, he co-authored Mixed Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry? with James Rosbrook Thompson.

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