1st Edition

Sport, Culture and History Region, nation and globe

By Brian Stoddart Copyright 2008
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon his own training in Asian studies. His work has been characterised by cross-disciplinary work from... Read more

Introduction 1. Cricket’s Imperial Crisis: the 1932-33 M.C.C. Tour of Australia 2. Sport and Society, 1890-1940 3. The Horses Ran In Different Directions 4. Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: a Preliminary Ethnohistory 5. Caribbean Cricket: the Role of Sport in the Emergence of Small Nation Politics 6. Sport, Cultural Imperialism and Colonial Response in the British Empire: a Framework For Analysis 7. Sport In The Social Construct Of The Lesser Developed World: a Commentary 8. Wide World of Golf: a Research Note on the Interdependence of Sport, Culture and Economy 9. Behind The Scrum: the Cult and Culture of Rugby Union 10. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Windows On The World 11. Sport, Television, Interpretation and Practice Reconsidered 12. Golf International: :Considerations of Sport in the Global Marketplace 13. A Transnational View 14. Where Sport and Self-Image Are Synonyms 14. Orientalism, Golf and the Modern Age: Joe Kirkwood In Asia 15. Identity Spin: Imagined Cultures In Australian and Indian Cricket 16. Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket

Biography

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