ABSTRACT
This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|139 pages
Culture and Sport in Britain
chapter 1|14 pages
Sport and Industrialization
An Economic Interpretation of the Changes in Popular Sport in Nineteenth-Century England
chapter 2|21 pages
Bonaparte and the Squire
Chauvinism, Virility and Sport in the Period of the French Wars
chapter 5|19 pages
Catalyst of Change
John Guthrie Kerr and the Adaptation of an Indigenous Scottish Tradition
part Two|129 pages
Culture, Sport and ‘Greater Britain’
chapter 9|12 pages
A New Britannia in the Antipodes
Sport, Class and Community in Colonial South Australia
chapter 10|18 pages
Latter-Day Cultural Imperialists
The British Influence on the Establishment of Cricket in Philadelphia, 1842–1872
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chapter 11|22 pages
South Africa’s Black Victorians
Sport and Society in South Africa in the Nineteenth Century
chapter 13|27 pages
Cricket and Colonialism in the English-Speaking Caribbean to 1914
Towards a Cultural Analysis
