| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Exploring culture, politics, governance & economics, this volume places cricket in the post-colonial life of the major test-playing countries. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cricket -- Social aspects -- Commonwealth countries.
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Cricket -- Social aspects. |
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Commonwealth countries. |
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Cricket. |
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Cricket -- Political aspects -- Commonwealth countries.
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Cricket -- Political aspects. |
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Nationalism and sports -- Commonwealth countries.
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Nationalism and sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wagg, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415363489 (DLC) 2004030312 (OCoLC)57344187 |
| ISBN |
020301460X (electronic book) |
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9780203014608 (electronic book) |
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0415363489 (Cloth) |
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0415484898 |
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9780415484893 |
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