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The politics of South African cricket /
Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Sport in the global society.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; The Problems of Defining 'Political Science'; The Ties that Bind: The Relationship between Sport and Politics; On a Sticky Wicket: The Ethos of Cricket; Programme and Practice: Apartheid and Sport; Banishing Tradition, or Prejudice? Politics and the Winding Road to Multiracial Cricket; 'No Normal Sport in an Abnormal Society'; Isolating the Disease: International Politics and the Arguments for Sanctions against South Africa
- Isolation (of Sorts): South Africa's Withdrawal from the CommonwealthA Defining Moment: The Basil D'Oliveira Affair; Cricket and the Actual Institution of Politics: The 1970 South African Tour to England; Treachery and Despair: The Rebel Tours; Conclusion: The Role of Sport in Influencing Change in South Africa; Postscript: Constructing the Rainbow Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index