Cricket's Changing Ethos: Nobles, Nationalists and the Ipl

by Jon Gemmell

Book Overview

This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The work examines the impact of globalisation and marketization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319763385
• ISBN13: 9783319763385
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"