Globalizing cricket : : Englishness, Empire and identity / / Dominic Malcolm.

• Superior document: Globalizing sport studies
• VerfasserIn: Malcolm, Dominic, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: London, England ;, New York, New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Globalizing sport studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as part of the development of the British Empire and its role in structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the English, the British and postcolonial communities. Whilst empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader issues such as social development,

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Globalizing Sport Studies Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Cricket; The aims of Globalizing Cricket; A framework for understanding the development of cricket; Conclusion: Cricket and Englishness as a pleonasm; 1 The Emergence of Cricket; From folk game to modern sport; Early cricket matches; The sportization of cricket; Law changes and the control of violence; Conclusion; 2 The 'National Game': Cricket in Nineteenth-Century England; National identity and Englishness; Cricket and Englishness

Cricket and social change in nineteenth-century EnglandCricket towards the end of the century; Conclusion; Postscript; 3 The Imperial Game: Cricket and Colonization; The Imperial game: Some conceptual issues; Cricket and colonization: Dominant trends; Cricket and colonization: Ideological problems; Conclusion; 4 Cricket in America; Theories of cricket's demise in America; The arrival of cricket in America; Cricket's peak and the rise of baseball; Conclusion; 5 Cricket in the Caribbean; Cricket in the colonial Caribbean; Cricket in the post-colonial Caribbean; Conclusion

6 Cricket and the Celtic NationsColonization and the Celtic nations; The development of cricket in Celtic nations; Wales; Scotland; Ireland; The 'failure' of cricket in the Celtic nations; Celtic cricket and colonization; Conclusion: Cricket and contemporary identities in the Celtic nations; 7 Cricket and Diasporic Identities in Post-Imperial Britain; Conceptualizing diaspora; The Caribbean diaspora and cricket spectatorship; The South Asian diaspora and cricket spectatorship; Diasporic identities and grassroots cricket; Diaspora and professional cricket in England; Conclusion

8 Cricket and Changing Conceptions of EnglishnessMalign Englishness; The Barmy Army and the emergence of benign Englishness; The social context of the Barmy Army's emergence; 2005 Ashes and the popularization of benign Englishness; Flintoff as the embodiment of Englishness; Conclusion; 9 Cricket, the English and the Process of 'Othering'; Orientalism; Woolmergate; Woolmergate and cultural representations of the West; Woolmergate and cultural representations of the Caribbean; Woolmergate and cultural representations of the Orient; Conclusion; Conclusion; Theoretical reflections; References

NotesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z