| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Globalizing sport studies |
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Globalizing sport studies.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Emergence of Cricket -- 2. The `National Game': Cricket in Nineteenth-Century England -- 3. The Imperial Game: Cricket and Colonization -- 4. Cricket in America -- 5. Cricket in the Caribbean -- 6. Cricket and the Celtic Nations -- 7. Cricket and Diasporic Identities in Post-Imperial Britain -- 8. Cricket and Changing Conceptions of Englishness -- 9. Cricket, the English and the Process of `Othering'. |
| Note |
Machine converted from AACR2 source record. |
| Summary |
"Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as part of the development of the British Empire and its role in structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the English, the British and postcolonial communities. Whilst empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader issues such as social development, imperialism, race, diaspora and national identities. Tracing the beginnings of cricket as a 'folk game' through to the present, it draws together these different strands to examine the meaning and social significance of the modern game. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of sport in both colonial and post-colonial periods; the history and peculiarities of English national identity; or simply intrigued by the game and its history."-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Cricket -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Cricket -- History.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects.
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.
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National characteristics, English.
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Cricket. (OCoLC)fst00882917
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Cricket -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00882931
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Imperialism -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00968140
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National characteristics, English. (OCoLC)fst01033413
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Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01982445
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Malcolm, Dominic, 1969- Globalizing cricket. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781849665278 1849665273 |
| ISBN |
1849665273 (hardback) |
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9781849665278 (hardback) |
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9781849665599 |
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1283853469 |
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9781283853460 |
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1849665591 |
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9781849665599 |
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1849665613 |
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9781849665612 |
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