Mendoza the Jew Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, a Graphic History

Name: Mendoza the Jew Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, a Graphic History
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ISBN: 9780199334094

ISBN-10: 0199334099

ISBN-13: 9780199334094

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ronald Schechter, Liz Clarke

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Inspired by the resounding success of Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2011), Mendoza the Jew combines a graphic history with primary documentation and contextual information to explore issues of nationalism, identity, culture, and historical methodology through the life story of Daniel Mendoza. Mendoza was a poor Sephardic Jew from East London who became the boxing champion of Britain in 1789. As a Jew with limited means and a foreign-sounding name, Mendoza was an unlikely symbol of what many Britons considered to be their very own "national" sport. Whereas their adversaries across the Channel reputedly settled private quarrels by dueling with swords or pistols--leaving widows and orphans…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Ronald Schechter is Associate Professor in the Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History, The College of William and Mary. He is editor of The French Revolution: The Essential Readings (2001).