The Cambridge companion to boxing / edited by Gerald Early, University of Washington, St Louis.
| Other author | Early, Gerald Lyn. |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Companion to boxing |
| Contents | Boxing in the ancient world / Byron J. Nakamura - The bare-knuckle era / Elliott J. Gorn -- Jem Mace and the making of modern boxing / Adam Chill -- Race and boxing in the nineteenth century / Louis Moore -- Joe Gans and his contemporaries :tThe contest for supremacy in the Queensberry realm / Colleen Aycock -- Dempsey-Tunney, Tunney-Greb, and the 1920s / Carlo Rotella --- Prime time and crime time : boxing in the 1950s / Troy Rondinone -- The Africans : boxing and Africa / Adeyinka Makinde - A century of fighting Latinos : from the margins to the mainstream / Benita Heiskanen -- Women's boxing : bout time / Cathy van Ingen -- Jews in twentieth century boxing / Steven A. Riess -- A surprising dearth of top English-born Jewish fighters in the bareknuckle era / Tony Gee -- Joe Louis : "you should have seen him then" / Randy Roberts -- The furious beauty of Sugar Ray / Wil Haygood -- Echoes from the jungle : Muhammad Ali in the early 70s / Lewis Erenberg -- The unusable champions : Sonny Liston (1962-1964) and Larry Holmes (1978-1985) / Michael Ezra -- Emile Griffith : an underrated champion / Mark Scott -- Pierce Egan, boxing, and British nationalism / Adam Chill -- Jose Torres : the boxer as writer / Adeyinka Makinde -- "Well, what was it really like?" : George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the heavyweights / Kasia Boddy -- Jack London and the great white hopes of boxing literature / Scott D. Emmert -- Body and soul of the screen boxer / Leger Grindon -- Black slaver : Jack Johnson and the Mann Act / Rebecca Wanzo -- Yesternow : Jack Johnson, documentary film, and the politics of jazz / Benjamin Cawthra -- Opera for boxers / Rosalind Early -- The voice of boxing : a brief history of American broadcasting ringside / Colleen Aycock -- Ralph Wiley's surprising serenity / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Muhammad Ali, King of the inauthentic / Gerald Early. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018039104 |
| ISBN | 9781107058019 (Hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |