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Autore |
Cassidy Rebecca |
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Titolo |
The sport of kings : kinship, class and thoroughbred breeding in Newmarket / / Rebecca Cassidy |
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Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-13173-1 |
0-511-17761-5 |
0-511-04474-7 |
0-521-80877-4 |
9786610436392 |
0-511-61376-8 |
0-511-30510-9 |
0-511-14801-1 |
1-280-43639-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Thoroughbred horse - Breeding - England - Newmarket |
Race horses - Breeding - England - Newmarket |
Horse racing - England - Newmarket |
Horse industry - England - Newmarket |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Headquarters 3. Keeping it in the family 4. At the races 5. Having a flutter 6. Going once, going twice .. 7. One of the lads 8. Doing it for Daddy 9. Blood will tell 10. Conclusions List of references Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making |
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