Book review: British sporting literature and culture in the long eighteenth century

Huggins, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2789-4756 (2016) Book review: British sporting literature and culture in the long eighteenth century. International Journal of the History of Sport, 33 (6-7). pp. 763-765.

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Abstract

In recent years the vast majority of historians of sport have shown relatively little interest in the long eighteenth century, preferring to concentrate on the more recent past, and largely abandoning the field to specialists in literature such as John Whale or David Nash, or mainstream historians like Wolfgang Behringer Emma Griffin, Rebekka Mallinckrodt, or Angela Schattner. They have shed new light on a period which has been tentatively suggested by many scholars including Allen Guttmann and Norbert Elias to have seen the origins of modern sport.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	International Journal of the History of Sport
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	1743-9035
Departments:	Academic Departments > Institute of Arts (IOA) > Humanities
Additional Information:	Mike Huggins, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria, reviews the book: 'British sporting literature and culture in the long eighteenth century', edited by Sharron Harrow, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, ISBN 9781472465085.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2017 15:57
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 15:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2621

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