Ebook: Boxing: a cultural history

Boxing Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Classical Golden Age; 2 The English Golden Age; 3 Pugilism and Style; 4 'Fighting, Rightly Understood'; 5 'Like Any Other Profession'; 6 Fresh Hopes; 7 Sport of the Future; 8 Save Me, Jack Dempsey; Save Me, Joe Louis; 9 King of the Hill, and FurtherRaging Bulls; Conclusion; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index.;Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all. In her encyclopaedic investigation, Kasia Boddy sheds new light on an elemental sports and struggle for dominance whose weapons ar.