Cricket and England Through Five Matches: Class, War, Race & Empire 1900-1939

By Ross English

Cricket and England Through Five Matches examines English cricket's relationship to issues such as class, war, race and empire. Each chapter looks at a single cricket match and shows how the sport reflected, resisted and influenced social and political change in the first half of the twentieth century.The material in this book is based upon the podcast 'Cricket and England Through Five Matches' available from cricketstuff.blog and iTunes.Praise for this book:"English is by no means the first to have used cricket as a vehicle to explain social history, but despite the number of others who have attempted to do so I do not recall enjoying such a book as much before." Cricketweb.net"An easy and enjoyable read, and a well-delivered analysis of the game and its social context in the first half of the twentieth century." The Cricket Statistician

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198108827X
• ISBN13: 9781981088270
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"