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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book The Book of Sports, British and Foreign written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9351186938
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Corner of a Foreign Field written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.
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Total Pages : 754 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719037580
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport and the Making of Britain written by Derek Birley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles how sporting traditions in Britain were shaped and how they in turn contributed to the shaping of British social conventions. Tracing sporting history from its origins, this book emphasizes how sport served different functions from the modern notion of a leisure-time relief from work.
Author : J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144062
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism written by J A Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.
Author : Robert Colls
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198208332
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Sporting Life written by Robert Colls and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book The New Sporting Almanack written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriet Ritvo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266730
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Animal Estate written by Harriet Ritvo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
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Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book The London Catalogue of Books Published in Great Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
