Overview
- Explores Southern Africa’s sporting image, grounding it in analyses of the subaltern class that have been hitherto marginalised or ignored
- Traces imperial networks beyond the UK as mediator of empire, and brings women’s role in the sporting politics of Empire into clearer focus
- Challenges the dominant narrative of Imperial sports history by interrogating and filling in the gaps and silences in the record of the excluded
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics (PASSP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Landscape
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The Players
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The Politics
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About this book
The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist ideology of empire, its ‘arrested development’ and the reliance of South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society, and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities, and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their impact.
Reviews
“What is revealed in this highly stimulating grand sweep of history from Rhodes to Richards is far more than a chronology of events, rather a hidden history of a fractured society and a tribute to forgotten players and administrators and their impact on an evolving sport that possessed an extraordinary richness and diversity of talent.” (Russell Holden, idrottsforum.org, June 4, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard Parry has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University, Canada, and written variously on resistance to colonialism, South African cricket and social history, and international taaxation. He was a contributor to Empire and Cricket: The South African Experience 1884-1914 (2009).
Jonty Winch received his Ph.D. from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and has written six books including England’s Youngest Captain: The Life and Times of MontyBowden (2003). He also contributed to Empire and Cricket: The South African Experience 1884-1914 and co-authored Cricket and Conquest: The History of South African Cricket Retold (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971
Book Subtitle: From Union to Isolation
Editors: Bruce Murray, Richard Parry, Jonty Winch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93608-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93607-9Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06692-5Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93608-6Published: 01 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-998X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 383
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: African History, Modern History, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Sociology of Sport and Leisure