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Kasia Boddy's newly published Boxing: A Cultural History received several good reviews from the other side of the Atlantic over the last couple weeks:

The Sunday Telegraph enthusiastically praised Boxing in its May 25th issue, noting:

If one author deserves real praise for stamina, it is Kasia Boddy. The research she has put into this book, combined with her awesome understanding of Western culture, is staggering. She can write with authority about everything from classical Rome to the Dada movement of the 1920s, from the work of George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Pepys' diary. . . . Her book is a magnificent achievement.

The New Statesman also had high praise for the book, saying:

Boddy's book is a superb work of scholarship, spanning ancient Greece to Mike Tyson. Its reproduced lithographs and colour plates make the book, in its way, a handsome work of art in itself. . . . Boddy referees this heavyweight 15-rounder with elegance, aplomb and rigour.

The Daily Telegraph wasn't quite as enamored with Boxing in its June 5th issue, but overall, the reviewer called the book "compendious, and thoroughly fascinating" and declared it was "an excellent, well-written and beautifully illustrated book."

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Learn more about Boxing: A Cultural History, newly published by Reaktion Books