Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History: 12 (Sport in the Global Society)

by Mike Huggins (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $76.46

  2001 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year

  This volume studies the formative period of racing between 1790 and 1914. This was a time when, despite the opposition of a respectable minority, attendance at horse races, betting on horses, or reading about racing increasingly became central leisure activities of much of British society.