The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
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The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

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The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

About this book

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and commercial exploitation of mostly poor young men. This Companion offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It includes a comprehensive chronology of the sport, listing all the important events and personalities. Essays examine topics such as women in boxing, boxing and the rise of television, boxing in Africa, boxing and literature, and boxing and Hollywood films. A unique book for scholars and fans alike, this Companion explores the sport from its inception in Ancient Greece to the death of its most celebrated figure, Muhammad Ali.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Chronology
  8. Introduction: The Last Sport Standing
  9. 1 Boxing in the Ancient World
  10. 2 The Bare-Knuckle Era
  11. 3 Jem Mace and the Making of Modern Boxing
  12. 4 Race and Boxing in the Nineteenth Century
  13. 5 Joe Gans and His Contemporaries
  14. 6 Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and the Roaring Twenties
  15. 7 Prime (and Crime) Time: Boxing in the 1950s
  16. 8 The Africans: Boxing and Africa
  17. 9 A Century of Fighting Latinos: From the Margins to the Mainstream
  18. 10 Women’s Boxing: Bout Time
  19. 11 Jews in Twentieth-Century Boxing
  20. 12 A Surprising Dearth of Top English-born Jewish Fighters in the Bare-Knuckle Era
  21. 13 Joe Louis: “You Should Have Seen Him Then”
  22. 14 Sugar Ray Robinson’s Furious Beauty
  23. 15 Echoes from the Jungle: Muhammad Ali in the Early 1970s
  24. 16 The Unusable Champions: Sonny Liston (1962–1964) and Larry Holmes (1978–1985)
  25. 17 Emile Griffith: An Underrated Champion
  26. 18 Pierce Egan, Boxing, and British Nationalism
  27. 19 Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer
  28. 20 “Well, What Was it Really Like?” George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the Heavyweights1
  29. 21 Jack London and the Great White Hopes of Boxing Literature
  30. 22 Body and Soul of the Screen Boxer
  31. 23 Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act
  32. 24 Yesternow: Jack Johnson, Documentary Film, and the Politics of Jazz
  33. 25 Opera in the Ring
  34. 26 The Voice of Boxing
  35. 27 Ralph Wiley’s Surprising Serenity
  36. 28 Muhammad Ali: King of the Inauthentic
  37. Index