Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins ...

The Modern Japanese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Japanese. The book is divided into two parts: Section A provides ...

An exploration the value of racing to the working classes, the gentry and aristocracy, tracing the sport's development in an age of great scientific advances alongside the rise ...

Challenging the respectable image of Victorian society, this irreverent, revisionist collection explores the sinful side of middle-class Victorian leisure, highlighting the ...

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history ...

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history ...

This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has ...

A fascinating history of the English experience of sport, from its earliest beginnings in social play and pastimes, via its adoption as an alternative to the clockwork routine ...

Concise, up-to-date survey of the sporting 'revolution', and its cultural and economic consequences.