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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext No further information has been provided for this title. Zusammenfassung This book draws together some of Brian Stoddart’s most important writings, showing how he has influenced thinking about and the analysis of sports practice in a wide variety of social and cultural settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Preface 2. Cricket’s Imperial Crisis: the 1932-33 MCC Tour of Australia 3. Sport and Society 1890 – 1940: A Foray 4. Illusion or Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Sport 5. Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: A Preliminary Ethnohistory 6. Caribbean Cricket: The Role of Sport in Emerging Small-nation Politics 7. Sport, Cultural Imperialism and Colonial Response in the British Empire 8. Wide World of Golf: A Research Note on the Interdependence of Sport, Culture and Economy 9. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Windows on the World 10. Sport, Television, Interpretation and Practice Reconsidered: Televised Golf and Analytical Orthodoxies 11. A Transnational View 12. Orientalism, Golf and the Modern Age: Joe Kirkwood in Asia 13. Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket
