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Author:   Stephen Wagg
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780415363488

ISBN 10:   0415363489
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   07 July 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Stephen Wagg Part 1. Cricket and the Former Dominions 1. Unity, Difference and the ‘National Game’: Cricket and Australian national identity Brett Hutchins 2. Kiwi or English?: Cricket on the margins of New Zealand national identity Greg Ryan 3. ‘No-one in Dolly’s Class at Present?’: Cricket and national identity in post-apartheid South Africa Jon Gemmell and James Hamill Part 2.Cricket in the New Commonwealth 4. Play Together, Live Apart: Religion, politics and markets in Indian cricket since 1947 Sharda Ugra 5. History Without a Past: Memory and forgetting in Indian cricket Satadru Sen 6. Cricket in ‘a Nation Imperfectly Imagined’: Identity and tradition in postcolonial Pakistan Chris Valiotis 7. Sri Lanka: The power of cricket and the power in cricket Michael Roberts 8. One Eye on the Ball, One Eye on the World: Cricket, West Indian nationalism and the spirit of C. L. R. James Tim Hector Part 3. Cricket in the Old Country 9. Calypso Kings, Dark Destroyers: England-West Indies Test cricket and the English press 1950 to 1984 Stephen Wagg 10. ‘A Carnival of Cricket?’: The Cricket World Cup, ‘race’ and the politics of carnival Tim Crabbe and Stephen Wagg 11. Sheffield Caribbean: The story of a Yorkshire cricket club Chris Searle 12. Clean Bowl Racism?: Inner-city London and the politics of cricket development Nick Miller 13. The Ambush Clause: Globalisation, corporate power and the governance of world cricket Mike Marqusee

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Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Roehampton University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of sport, of the media, of comedy and of childhood.

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