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  • MATCH FIXING AND SPORT
    MIKE HUGGINS / ROB HESS
    Match-Fixing and Sport studies match-fixing in historical perspective, revealing how match-fixing has always been a major sporting continuity, alongside another longstanding continuity, a widely-held belief in a mythical recent past of pristine purity. The volume begins with a brief overview of match-fixing’s global contemporary contexts, the broad range of sports where it now ...

    $1,059.00

  • FLAT RACING AND BRITISH SOCIETY, 1790-1914
    MIKE HUGGINS
    2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became central leisure activities of much of British society. ...

    $1,439.00

  • THE VISUAL IN SPORT
    MIKE HUGGINS
    This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and continues to impact upon, our understanding of sport as an integral element with...

    $1,399.00

  • DISREPUTABLE PLEASURES
    HUGGINS, MIKE / MANGAN, J. A.
    Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes and challenges the conventional view that middle-class...

    $1,399.00

  • SPORT AND THE ENGLISH, 1918-1939
    MIKE HUGGINS / JACK WILLIAMS
    A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of morality, continuity and change, and what it ...

    $1,299.00