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Holt examines the values and social assumptions implicit in the British attitudes towards various games and how and why the playing and organization of sports have changed over the last 190 years.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holt, Richard, 1948- (Author)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1989.
Series:Oxford studies in social history.
Subjects:
Sports > Great Britain > History.
Sports > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Sports > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Sports > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Sports
Sports > Social aspects
Great Britain
Sport.
Sports > Grande-Bretagne > histoire.
Sports > aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain > Sports > Social aspects, history
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Description
Summary:Holt examines the values and social assumptions implicit in the British attitudes towards various games and how and why the playing and organization of sports have changed over the last 190 years.
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index.
ISBN:9780191670541
0191670545