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… Virtue, 1829 [1821]), p. vi. Radicals and boxing after Waterloo Even if boxing was mostly defended by supporters of the Tory government, its ability to unite both gentlemen and working classes also attracted democrats and radicals. However, … ‘Millenarians of the Holy League’, i.e. the allied monarchies that defeated Napoleon The ambiguities of boxing after the Tory backlash following Waterloo were also pondered by William Hazlitt in two essays published in the New Monthly … on 04/22/2024, URL: https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/boxing.html Further Reading Boddy, Kasia, Boxing: A Cultural History (London: Reaktion Books, 2008). Downing, Karen, ‘The Gentleman Boxer: Boxing, Manners, and Masculinity in …
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