Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age : following on / / edited by Stephen Wagg

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.358
• Soggetto topico: Cricket - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries; Cricket - Political aspects - Commonwealth countries; Nationalism and sports - Commonwealth countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WaggStephen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age
• ISBN: 1-134-22719-1; 1-280-31484-2; 9786610314843; 0-203-01460-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458035103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II