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“... is altogether too wide. A narrower view of what violence is about is to be preferred. The Elias/Dunning and Hargreaves volumes go to the opposite extreme. Both are concerned almost exclusively with sport in Great Britain and a very large part of both texts is devoted to football violence, especially among spectators at soccer matches. Some of the ...”

“... encouraged Gisèle Freund to write on the sociology of photography; in Leicester he worked with Eric Dunning to develop the sociology of sport. Alongside these micro-interests, Elias wrote on a wide variety of general themes, including dying, time and the use of symbols in society: extended essays marked by a concern with the whole of human social ...”

“... were perceived. Racism entered into the processes by which its own operations were analysed. Eric Foner, who now holds at Columbia University the DeWitt Clinton chair once held by Richard Hofstadter, makes the very interesting point that, as Northern liberals lost heart for and interest in the struggle for racial justice in the South, they found it ...”

“... rendition mirrored the depiction of Reconstruction offered by leading academics such as William Dunning of Columbia University, who served as president of both the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association. ‘The negro,’ Dunning wrote in Reconstruction, Political and ...”