With an Argumentative Proof, that Pugilism, Considered as a Gymnic. On Saturday , June 11 , 1808 , a battle was fought at Golder's - green , on the Hendon road , between Dogherty and a Scotch baker of the name of Pentikin ; the former ...
PANCRATIA. PART II . HISTORY OF PUGILISM IN THIS COUNTRY . IT T appears from the best historical accounts ex- tant , that missile weapons and bloody sports , both human and animal , were , if not earlier introduced , with great avidity ...
As described in Pancratia or, A History of Pugilism, published in 1812, the fight had an air of legitimacy from the beginning: Every thing having been properly arranged, the combatants set to, and for some time each displayed great ...
Author: Malissa Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442229952
Category: Sports & Recreation
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Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games. Throughout boxing’s history, women have fought in and out of the ring to gain respect in a sport traditionally considered for men alone. The stories of these women are told for the first time in this comprehensive work dedicated to women’s boxing. A History of Women’s Boxing traces the sport back to the 1700s, through the 2012 Olympic Games, and up to the present. Inside-the-ring action is brought to life through photographs, newspaper clippings, and anecdotes, as are the stories of the women who played important roles outside the ring, from spectators and judges to managers and trainers. This book includes extensive profiles of the sport’s pioneers, including Barbara Buttrick whose plucky carnival shows launched her professional boxing career in the 1950s; sixteen-year-old Dallas Malloy who single-handedly overturned the strictures against female amateur boxing in 1993; the famous “boxing daughters” Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier-Lyde; and teenager Claressa Shields, the first American woman to win a boxing gold medal at the Olympics. Rich in detail and exhaustively researched, this book illuminates the struggles, obstacles, and successes of the women who fought—and continue to fight—for respect in their sport. A History of Women’s Boxing is a must-read for boxing fans, sports historians, and for those interested in the history of women in sports.
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ISBN: 0331240696
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Excerpt from Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism: Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note From the Time of Broughton and Slack, Down to the Present Day; Interspersed With Anecdotes of All the Celebrated Pugilists of This Country IT has ever licen allowed, even by that sect 'of phi losophe'rs, who with so much sublimit y have argued the perfectability of man, and the ultimate establish ment of the umpian government; that human nature is so constituted as to require'both bodily and mental recreation. This propensity tr; amusement in man, is sufficiently prov ed by the generality of the llesine, in every stage of life, and under every variety of cli mate and constitution of government. But the re gulation of this apparently instinctive impulse of man differs greatly according to the circumstances under which he is placed. The influence of moral and poli tical, even exclusive of physical causes, tend much to diversify the Sports of mankind; the latter in par ticular may be very readily conceived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Bibliographies 1459 Hartley , R. A. , History and Bibliography of Boxing Books : A Collector's Guide to the History of ... 1463 Pancratia , or a History of Pugilism : Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of ...
Author: Richard William Cox
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714652504
Category: Athletes
Page: 216
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Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Bibliographies 1459 Hartley , R. A. , History and Bibliography of Boxing Books : A Collector's Guide to the History of ... 1463 Pancratia , or a History of Pugilism : Containing a Full Account of Every Battle of Note from the Time of ...
Author: Richard Cox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135287214
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 216
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Volume one of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Boxing, Race, Religion and Nationality in the 18th and 19th Centuries Adam Chill ... William Oxberry, Pancratia, or, A history of pugilism: containing a full account of every battle of note from the time of Broughton and Slack down to ...
Author: Adam Chill
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476663302
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 248
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Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.
1 Anonymous, Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism (London, 1812), p. 16. 1 This historical argument is bolstered by an equally important proto-ethnographic survey of contemporary European society. Predictably the Italians and the French ...
Author: Paul Youngquist
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317072188
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 284
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In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad economic and cultural exchanges occurring throughout a circum-Atlantic world driven by an insatiable hunger for sugar and slaves. Typically taken for granted, the material contributions of slaves, sailors, and servants shaped Romanticism both in spite of and because of the severe conditions they experienced throughout the Atlantic world. The essays range from Sierra Leone to Jamaica to Nova Scotia to the metropole, examining not only the desperate circumstances of diasporic peoples but also the extraordinary force of their creativity and resistance. Of particular importance is the emergence of race as a category of identity, class, and containment. Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic explores that process both economically and theoretically, showing how race ensures the persistence of servitude after abolition. At the same time, the collection never loses sight of the extraordinary contributions diasporic peoples made to British culture during the Romantic era.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 0342023659
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Cultural History Kasia Boddy ... Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (Harmondsworth, 1970) Oxberry, William, Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism (London, 1812) Pacheco, Ferdie, Fight Doctor (London, 1977) Pancake, Breece D'J, The Stories of ...
Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861897022
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 480
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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 are nothing more than fists. Boddy examines the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, and shows how from Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boxing explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media, from cinema to radio to pay-per-view. The book also offers an intriguing new perspective on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding, Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Mae West, Bertolt Brecht, and Charles Dickens. An all-encompassing study, Boxing ultimately reveals to us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
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14 The Broughton—Slack fight is described in Pierce Egan, 15 Pancratia, or, a History of Pugilism, London, 1812, p. 47. For a broad discussion of gambling in eighteenth-century France, see Thomas M. Kavanagh, Enlightenment and the ...
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135081980
Category: History
Page: 184
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Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of sport and society, Professor Tony Collins. Tracing the history of modern sport from its origins in the burgeoning capitalist economy of mid-eighteenth century England to the globalised corporate sport of today, the book argues that, far from the purity of sport being ‘corrupted’ by capitalism, modern sport is as much a product of capitalism as the factory, the stock exchange and the unemployment line. Based on original sources, the book explains how sport has been shaped and moulded by the major political and economic events of the past two centuries, such as the French Revolution, the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the imposition of the neo-liberal agenda in the last decades of the twentieth century. It highlights the symbiotic relationship between the media and sport, from the simultaneous emergence of print capitalism and modern sport in Georgian England to the rise of Murdoch’s global satellite television empire in the twenty-first century, and for the first time it explores the alternative, revolutionary models of sport in the early twentieth century. Sport in a Capitalist Society is the first sustained attempt to explain the emergence of modern sport around the world as an integral part of the globalisation of capitalism. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the history or sociology of sport, or the social and cultural history of the modern world.
... 1951 Miles, Henry Downes, Pugilistica: Being One Hundred and Forty-Four Years of the History of British Boxing., London, Weldon & Co, 1880 Oxberry, W., Pancratia, or, A History of Pugilism, London, Oxberry / Sherwood, Neely & Jones, ...
Author: Wynn Wheldon
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781445685748
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 288
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The first full-length popular biography of one of the first boxing superstars. Mendoza transformed boxing from a mere brawl into the sweet science, and was a master manipulator of publicity and shaping public opinion. He exploited the anti-Semitic feelings of the day and in doing so raised the social profile of Jews in Great Britain.
Boxing emerged as a popular spectacle during the Renaissance along with cockfighting, bearbaiting, and the theater. ... an anonymous writer produced the lesser known, but by no means less interesting, Pancratia: A History of Pugilism.
Author: L. A. Jennings
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538141960
Category: Social Science
Page: 261
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This book is a fascinating history of mixed martial arts, from ancient fighting sports to the present day. It examines the growth and development of the different sports and features vignettes of famous moments in fighting history alongside stories of the fighters themselves.
11 This argument recurs frequently in the highly self-conscious writing on boxing in the period. See for example the cancellation and re-inscription of ... 19 Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism (London: W. Hildyard, 1812), p. 77.
Author: Kevin Gilmartin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107064782
Category: History
Page: 283
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This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.
... Or, A History of Pugilism 158, 159 Oxford, 17th Earl of (Edward de Vere), quarrel with Sidney 93 Pamela (Richardson), see Richardson, Samuel Pancratia, Or, A History of Pugilism (Oxberry), see Oxberry, William Parkyns, Sir Thomas, ...
Author: Sharon Harrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317171423
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 248
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Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Reproduced by D. Prestidge, Boxiana, or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism by Pierce Egan, Leicester: Vance Harvey Publishing, 1971. Pancratia or a History ofPugilism was published anonymously in London in two editions, ...
Author: Jack Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134087266
Category: Law
Page: 237
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The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson exposes boxing’s 'exemption' from contemporary legal and social norms. Reviewing all aspects of boxing - historical, legal, moral, ethical, philosophical, medical, racial and regulatory - he concludes that the supposition that boxing has a (consensual) immunity from the ordinary law of violence, based primarily on its social utility as a recognised sport, is not as robust as is usually assumed. It: suggests that the sport is extremely vulnerable to prosecution and might in fact already be illegal under English criminal law outlines the physical and financial exploitation suffered by individual boxers both inside and outside the ring, suggesting that standard boxing contracts are coercive thus illegal and that boxers do not give adequate levels of informed consent to participate advocates a number of fundamental reforms, including possibly that the sport will have to consider banning blows to the head proposes the creation of a national boxing commission in the US and a similar entity in the United Kingdom, which together would attempt to restore the credibility of a sport long know as the red-light district of sports administration. An excellent book, it is a must read for all those studying sports law, popular culture and the law and jurisprudence.
In 1812 William Oxberry , publican , printer , theatre historian and legit- imate actor also published a book about boxing , Pancratia : A History of Pugilism ; the West End world of the Haymarket and the Opera was also the site of the ...
Author: Jacky Bratton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521794633
Category: Drama
Page: 248
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Over the last two hundred years some important ways of understanding theatre history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge this development and to discover how theatre history has been chronicled and how it is interpreted. Using a series of case studies from nineteenth-century British theatre, Bratton examines the difference between the existence of 'the drama' (plays and play literature) and 'the stage' (performance, theatre building, and attendance). By rejecting literary history, Bratton experiments with other ways of analysing the past, and the ways that have actually seemed relevant to the people on stage. This book suggests new histories: of theatrical story-telling, of performing families, and of the disregarded dramatic energy of Victorian entertainment. As a result, we gain a new perspective on theatre history, not only for the Romantic and Victorian periods, but for the discipline overall.
fighters represented others, and they and their supporters were interdependent.34 In fact this pugilistic utopia is yet ... literature of pugilism, making its way even into the title of the anonymous Pancratia, or a History of Pugilism.
Author: Douglas Kerr
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199674947
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 286
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Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice approaches Conan Doyle's writing in terms of themes such as sport, science, crime, and empire, finding within it a complex and surprising interpretation of a late-Victorian and early twentieth-century world, emerging into a troubling modernity.