Mendoza the Jew
Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, A Graphic History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199334094
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 178x251x20 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 in their wake--the British (according to supporters of boxing) tended to settle their disputes with their fists.
Mendoza the Jew provides an exciting and lively alternative to conventional lessons on nationalism. Rather than studying learned treatises and political speeches, students can read a graphic history about an eighteenth-century British boxer that demonstrates how ideas and emotions regarding the "nation" permeated the practices of everyday life. Mendoza's story reveals the ambivalent attitudes of British society towards its minorities, who were allowed (sometimes grudgingly) to participate in national life by braving pain and injury in athletic contests, but whose social mobility was limited and precarious.
As a class- or seminar-room text that can offer students an inspiring introduction to the art and craft of history and act as a demystifier of the discipline, this volumes worth is inestimable. Yet, the authors frank discussions of the frustrations, complications, revelations, and collaborations inherent in the crafting of this work of history are also likely to resonate with historians of all levels of experience.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The graphic history
Chapter 1: The Making of a Boxer
Chapter 2: Boxing Lessons
Chapter 3: Odiham
Chapter 4: Stilton
Chapter 5: Doncaster
Chapter 6: "Poor Dan Mendoza"
Chapter 7: So what?
Part II: Primary sources
Part III: Historical context
Part IV: The making of Mendoza the Jew
Part V: Now it's your turn
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