Lifting the spirits of the nation: British boxers and the emergence of the national sporting hero at the time of the Napoleonic wars

Identities

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 249-270

  Radford, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boxing; Ethnicity; Hero, England; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURE; SPORT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 32144449917     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890590950609     Document Type: Article

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