ISBN:
9783030635459
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (407 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
796.830942821
Keywords:
Boxing-Social conditions
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Rings of Steel -- The End of Conversation -- The Code of the Warrior -- Actions and Words -- Statuesque -- The Power and the Glory -- The Spectacle of the Play-Fight -- Fair Means or Foul -- Wider Contests and Marginalised Bodies -- Feminine Fighters -- Out and Knock-Outs -- Race Relations -- Trading Punches and Places -- The Boxer and Capital -- Nature or Nurture? -- Boxer's Doxa -- Entering the Ring: Going the Distance -- The Urbane in the Urban -- References -- 2 A Champion in Town -- Simply the Best -- The American Hero -- Money Talks -- The Cyclone and the Cutlers -- Flesh and Symmetry -- References -- 3 The Attraction of 'Fisti-Cuffs' -- Giving a Figg -- Organised Violence -- The Ruling Class -- Appearing Slack -- Star of the East -- Changing Times -- Hypocrisy and Civilisation -- Respectable or Revolutionary? -- Rights and Radicals -- The Fight Goes North -- Gentlemen and Tough Jews -- Belcher's Repeat Offences -- Mischief Makers -- The Eyes Have It -- Slave to the Ring -- Spring Arrives -- Fancy Language -- The Sweet Science -- Deaf Threats -- The Rattlesnake -- The Look of the Irish -- Numerous Offences -- Escape to Victory -- Laws and Low Foreheads -- New Rules of Engagement -- References -- 4 The Gloves Are On -- Sheffield: A City on the Move -- Friendly and Leisurely -- A Sporting People -- Sport: A Class Act? -- Mappin Out the Future -- Fighting with Conviction -- The Worth of Men -- Local Boundaries for Worthless Men -- Conspiracies and Countrymen -- Peacekeeping Task -- Roughs on Recognisance -- Lads and Lives Lost -- Knees, Peas and Pleas -- Deterrent Sentences? -- Appearances in Court -- Fighting for Favours? -- Courting the Family -- Dregs and Scamps -- Circumstantial Evidence -- A Fatal Attraction -- Benevolence and Business -- Help for the Damned.
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