The Cultural Bond - Sport, Empire, Society

List of contents

Prologue: Britain’s Chief Spiritual Export, J.A. Mangan; Chapter 1 A Sacred Trinity – Cricket, School, Empire, Tozer Malcolm; Chapter 2 The MCC, Society and Empire, Bradley James; Chapter 3 Salvation for the Fittest? A West African Sportsman in the Age of the New Imperialism, Jenkins Ray; Chapter 4 Emancipation, Exercise and Imperialism, Janice N. Brownfoot; Chapter 5 The Cambridge Connection, G. M. Hibbins; Chapter 6 Symbols of Imperial Unity, Cashman Richard; Chapter 7 Football on the Maidan, Tony Mason; Chapter 8 Viceregal Patronage, Gerald Redmond; Chapter 9 Badge of Office, Anthony Kirk-Greene; Chapter 10 ‘The Warmth of Comradeship’, Katharine Moore; Teaching the Nations How to Play, Harold Perkin;

About the author

Mangan, J.A.

Summary

The contributors to this volume examine the idea of empire with the view that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change.

Product details

• Assisted by: J.A. Mangan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1993
• EAN: 9780714633985
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-3398-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sports & outdoor recreation, Colonialism and imperialism, Sports and Active outdoor recreation