Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age: Following on

by Stephen Wagg

Book Overview

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens.

This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415484898
• ISBN13: 9780415484893
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"