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Empire & Cricket - The South African experience 1884-1914 (Paperback, New)
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Empire & Cricket - The South African experience 1884-1914 (Paperback, New)
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Empire and Cricket illuminates the complex relationship between
cricket and the making of South African society between 1884 and
1914. This critical era for South Africa and the British Empire
encompassed the economic revolution following: the discoveries of
diamonds and gold, the South African or Anglo-Boer War, and the
segregationist structuring of society. It is the gripping story of
how cricket lay at the heart of social and political developments
in South Africa and the wider British Empire, brought to life with
numerous historic photographs of players and historic sites. The
book's contributors describe how cricket acted as a vehicle for the
Empire, and how it impacted race and class. It maps the role of the
small and tightly knit white elite with overlapping interests in
cricket, politics, and business, as well as the largely ignored
world of the 'non-white' (African, 'colored, ' and Indian)
cricketers and politicians. The close connection between politics
and cricket goes back to the emergence of South Africa as a test
playing country in the late 19th century. Cape Prime Minister Cecil
John Rhodes included cricket in his drive to impose a
segregationist structure in the African sub-continent, effectively
ensuring the segregationist nature of South African cricket for
much of the 20th century. The feats of those who first placed South
African cricket on the international map are recalled, along with
chronicles of many other unsung local heroes. Empire and Cricket
explores the widespread enthusiasm for cricket among all of South
Africa's communities, and the passion and success with which blacks
played the game
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