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UNINA9910784426703321 |
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Titolo |
Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age : following on / / edited by Stephen Wagg |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-22718-3 |
1-134-22719-1 |
1-280-31484-2 |
9786610314843 |
0-203-01460-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cricket - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries |
Cricket - Political aspects - Commonwealth countries |
Nationalism and sports - Commonwealth countries |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Unity, difference and the 'national game'; 2 Kiwi or English?; 3 'No one in Dolly's class at present?'; 4 Play together, live apart; 5 History without a past; 6 Cricket in 'a nation imperfectly imagined'; 7 Sri Lanka; 8 One eye on the ball, one eye on the world; 9 Calypso kings, dark destroyers; 10 'A carnival of cricket?'; 11 Sheffield Caribbean; 12 Clean bowl racism?; 13 The ambush clause; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers:* cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India* the cricket cultures of Aus |
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