Globalizing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity

by Dominic Malcolm

Book Overview

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as part of the development of the British Empire and its role in structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the English,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849665273
• ISBN13: 9781849665278
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"