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Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017
Paperback
Series: Routledge Research in Sports History
ISBN13: 9780367186111
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 3 2019
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the contemporary history of sport.
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