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The making of New Zealand cricket, 1832-1914 /

This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryan, Greg, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
Colección:Sport in the global society.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Colonisation and the export of sport
  • 2. Diverse growth, 1840-1870
  • 3. Fashioning a middle-class game : cricket and class, 1870-1914
  • 4. A physical and moral agent, 1860-1914
  • 5. Perpetuating the straight bat : cricket and the schools, 1860-1914
  • 6. Uniting distant communities : interprovincial cricket, 1860-1914
  • 7. A fragile edifice : the New Zealand cricket council, 1894-1914
  • 8. Humble imitators at these distant Antipodes : the imperial connection in the nineteenth century
  • 9. A near but distant neighbour : New Zealand and Australia, 1890-1914
  • 10. More English than the English : the imperial connection in the twentieth century.