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Language: en
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
This book presents a sweeping view of boxing in the United States and the influence of the sport on American culture. Boxing has long been a popular fixture of
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. The author confirms the legends, of crime, of swindling, of th
Language: en
Pages: 375
Pages: 375
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-08 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
For much of the twentieth century, boxing was one of America’s most popular sports, and the heavyweight champions were figures known to all. Their exploits we
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-21 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Welcome to the colorful, flamboyant, and wonderful world of Mexican American boxing in Los Angeles. From the minute they stepped into the ring, Mexican American
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-15 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
The violent sport of boxing shaped and was shaped by notions of Mexican national identity during the twentieth century. This book reveals how boxing and boxers