Author: George Charles BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Morality of Prizefighting
Author: George Charles BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Morality of Prizefighting
Author: George C. BernardPrizefighting
Author: Arne K. LangPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786492442
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of mankind's most lasting and valued sporting attractions. With his primary focus outside the ropes, the author shows how organizers, publicity agents, and political allies overcame both legal and moral roadblocks to make fisticuffing a lively commercial enterprise. The book begins with the clandestine bare-knuckle fights in eighteenth-century London, and ends with the vibrant, large-scale productions of modern Las Vegas "fight nights." Along the way, he explains many of the myths about antiquarian prizefighters, describes the origins of slave fight folklore, and examines the forces that transformed Las Vegas into the world's leading venue for important fights.
Historical Development of Fundamental Moral Theology in the United States, The
Author: Charles E. CurranPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1616438819
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Sketches the development of fundamental moral theology in the U.S. and then uses original sources to document the significant changes that have occurred in the discipline, as well as the primary issues in Catholic moral theology today.
The Morality of Prizefighting
Author: Georges Charles BernardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Theology and Race Relations
Author: Joseph T. LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Race relations
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A stark and undramatic presentation of the basic principles of Catholic moral theology and an application of these principles to areas of interracial behaviour. Stresses the function and necessity of charity in resolving this problem.
The Pussycat of Prizefighting
Author: Andrew M. KayePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032910X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In 1926, Atlanta's Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African-American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year, he was dead. More than an account of Flowers's remarkable achievements, the book is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers's success. Through the prism of prizefighting, the author reveals the personal cost African-Americans faced as they attempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility.
The American Ecclesiastical Review
Author: Herman Joseph HeuserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Critical Issues In American Art
Author: Mary Ann CaloPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429980833
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art history and American studies programs. It contains twenty selections from academic journals on American art from colonial times to 1940. Mary Ann Calo provides an introduction to the anthology, explaining its purpose and organization, and each selection has a brief introduction about its main focus and scholarly approach. These case studies show the diversity of scholarly thinking about interpreting American works of art, which should be useful for teachers and comprehensible and interesting for students.This anthology contains twenty articles on American art from colonial times to 1940. The selections are mainly from academic journals and aim to provide the student and teacher with different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists. Mary Ann Calo's preface to the anthology explains its purpose and organization, and each article will have a brief introduction about its main focus and scholarly approach.This text meets the need in American art history studies for an anthology of essays on critical approaches and methodologies.
Prizefighting and Civilization
Author: David C. LaFevorPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940, historian David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its exponential rise in popularity during the early twentieth century. A divisive subculture that was both a profitable blood sport and a contentious public spectacle, boxing provides a unique vantage point from which LaFevor examines the deeper historical evolution of national identity, everyday normative concepts of masculinity and race, and an expanding and democratizing public sphere in both Mexico and Cuba, the United States’ closest Latin American neighbors. Prizefighting and Civilization explores the processes by which boxing—once considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture—evolved into a nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that transcends gender, race, and class.