Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017 Wagg Stephen Leeds Beckett University UKPaperback / softback
Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017 Wagg Stephen Leeds Beckett University UKPaperback / softback Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the other, it endures as a global game and…
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Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017 Wagg Stephen Leeds Beckett University UKPaperback / softback
Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness.
Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game's evolution as an This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation.Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world.