The Manly Art : Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America.

The Manly Art -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: The English Prize Ring -- 1. Hats in the Ring -- The Tremendous Man of Colour -- First Blood -- Professors of Pugilism -- Ideology and the Ring -- 2. The First American Champions -- The Rise of "Yankee' Sullivan -- The Battle of Hastings -- The Great 10,000 Match between Sullivan and Hyer -- 3. The Age of Heroes -- The Good Time Coming -- The Era of John Morrissey -- The Fate of Champions -- 4. The Meanings of Prize Fighting -- Working-Class Culture in Antebellum Cities -- Meaning in Mayhem -- The Rites of Violence -- 5. Triumph and Decline -- The Great Contest for the Championship of the World -- Civil Wars -- . . . The Gangs Who Rage and Howl at the Ropes -- 6. "Fight Like a Gentleman, You Son of a Bitch, If You Can -- The Rise of Sports -- The Strenuous Life -- Fighting Clerks, Boxing Brahmins, Vigorous Victorians -- 7. The End of the Bare-Knuckle Era -- My Name's John L. Sullivan and I Can Lick Any Son-of-a-Bitch Alive -- The New Order -- . . . Nigh New Orleans upon an Emerald Plain . . . -- The Champion of All Champions -- Epilogue: The Manly Art -- Afterword to the Updated Edition -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Updated edition of this "exciting narrative history of boxing" (The Nation).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.