Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017

ISBN-13: 9781138839854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str.

Stephen Wagg

Opis

Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded - imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. 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 for a postmodern, digital world. In this ambitious and important new history, Stephen Wagg tells the story of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, from decolonisation and globalisation to corruption, commercialisation and the rise of the IPL. Essential reading for anybody interested in the contemporary history of sport.

Spis treści

Part 1: Cricket and the End of Empire  1. Fossilised Reactionaries? English Cricket Since 1945  2. A Nation of Blow-Ins? Cricket in Australia Since 1945  3. ‘The Partnership of the Horse and its Rider’: Cricket in Southern Africa Since 1945  4. A Relative Lack of Interest: Cricket in New Zealand Since 1945  5. Father, King, Statesman, General, Prince, Don: West Indian Cricket Culture Since 1945  6. The Soul of a Nation, Long Suppressed? Cricket in India Since 1945  7. Cricket in a Hard Country: Pakistani Cricket Since 1947  8. ‘We Rule Here, You Rule There’: Cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh Since 1947  9. After Brewing Tea for the Empire: Cricket in Sri Lanka Since 1945  10. Straight Shooting Blokes: Social Distinction, Masculinity and Myth in The Ashes 1945 to 2015  Part 2: Cricket in the Age of Globalisation  11. ‘Everyone Seemed to Be ‘With It’: Cricket Politics and the Coming of the One Day Game, 1940-1970  12. ‘Paint a Picture, and Keep it the Right Way Up’: Cricket and the Mass Media 1945-2015  13. Women’s Cricket: The Feminism That Dared Not Speak Its Name  14. Remove the Gunk in the Middle: The Coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League  15. Have You Made This Team Great, or Have They Made You? Cricket, Coaching, and Globalisation  16. Beyond the Boundaries: The Drive to Globalise Cricket, and its Limits  17. Afterword

O autorze

Stephen Wagg is a professor in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK.