03250oam 2200709I 450 991045803510332120200520144314.01-134-22719-11-280-31484-297866103148430-203-01460-X10.4324/9780203014608 (CKB)1000000000359533(EBL)243147(OCoLC)299571773(SSID)ssj0001143750(PQKBManifestationID)12499366(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143750(PQKBWorkID)11132377(PQKB)10867439(SSID)ssj0000132282(PQKBManifestationID)12018342(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132282(PQKBWorkID)10039628(PQKB)11050016(MiAaPQ)EBC243147(Au-PeEL)EBL243147(CaPaEBR)ebr10163325(CaONFJC)MIL31484(OCoLC)437158366(OCoLC)252765702(EXLCZ)99100000000035953320180706d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCricket and national identity in the postcolonial age following on /edited by Stephen WaggLondon ;New York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-48489-8 0-415-36348-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexBringing 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 AusCricketSocial aspectsCommonwealth countriesCricketPolitical aspectsCommonwealth countriesNationalism and sportsCommonwealth countriesElectronic books.CricketSocial aspectsCricketPolitical aspectsNationalism and sports796.358Wagg Stephen132473FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910458035103321Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age2030126UNINA