Cricket and England : a cultural and social history of the inter-war years
Williams, Jack, 1940-2003
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Jack Williams looks at cricket as a symbol of England in the 1920s and 1930s. The associations of cricket with Church, tradition, the Empire, public schools and pastoralism meant that cricket was represented as expressing a distinctively English form of moral worth.
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London : Frank Cass, 1999.
Collation:
218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Sport in the global society ; no. 8
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780714644189 (pbk)0714644188 (pbk)9780714648613 (hbk)0714648612 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.3'58'0942
Language:
English
BRN:
209537
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