week2
The Imperial Game
Topics to be discussed: the spread of cricket to colonies, local adoption
Questions:
What factors led to the adoption of cricket in Australia, New Zealand, India, the West Indies and South Africa?
Can we discern important differences between each region?
How quickly did cricket become 'creole'?
How can we account for the failure of cricket in the US and Canada?
TV [4 programmes on England, Australia, India and West Indies, NB the episode on England is incomplete on youtube but available via your normal login]; (1987); (1992)
Reading
Keith Sandiford, Cricket nurseries of colonial Barbados: the elite schools 1865-1966 (1998)
Jared van Duinen, The British world and an Australian national identity : Anglo-Australian cricket, 1860--1901 (library ebook)
Clem Seecharan, Muscular learning: cricket and education in the making of the British West Indies at the end of the 19thC (2006)
Greg Ryan, The Making of New Zealand Cricket, 1832-1914 (2003)
Elizabeth Cooper, 'Playing Against Empire' Slavery & Abolition 39.3 (2018)
Tom Melville, The tented field: A history of cricket in America (1998)