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List of Plates Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Sport in its Social Context PART CASE-STUDIES The Spread of Field Sports The Growth of Patriotism or Pleasure? The English Gentlemen and Players Cyclings as a Commercial Spectacle Bullfighting and he Survival of Regional Culture PART MAJOR THEMES The Tradition of Brutality, Hooliganism and Combativity Sport and Sociability Sport and Status Sport and Ideology and Recruitment Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index