Sport, Culture and History : Region, nation and globe

ISBN-13: 9780415420792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 264 str.

Brian Stoddart

Opis

Region nation and globe. .

Spis treści

1. Preface  2. Cricket’s Imperial Crisis: the 1932-33 MCC Tour of Australia  3. Sport and Society 1890 – 1940: A Foray  4. Illusion or Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Sport  5. Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: A Preliminary Ethnohistory  6. Caribbean Cricket: The Role of Sport in Emerging Small-nation Politics  7. Sport, Cultural Imperialism and Colonial Response in the British Empire  8. Wide World of Golf: A Research Note on the Interdependence of Sport, Culture and Economy  9. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Windows on the World  10. Sport, Television, Interpretation and Practice Reconsidered: Televised Golf and Analytical Orthodoxies  11. A Transnational View  12. Orientalism, Golf and the Modern Age: Joe Kirkwood in Asia  13. Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket

O autorze

Professor Brian Stoddart is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at La Trobe University in Australia, and has long been recognised as a leading international authority on sports culture. He has published widely on Australian sport, sport in the British Empire, golf history and cricket, especially that of the Caribbean