Windrush cricket : imperial culture, Caribbean migration, and the remaking of postwar England /

How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? Interweaving extensive archival and oral history research into an engaging, often surprising narrative about empire and postwar Britain, 'Windrush Cricket' chall...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Collins, Michael
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Zusammenfassung:
How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? Interweaving extensive archival and oral history research into an engaging, often surprising narrative about empire and postwar Britain, 'Windrush Cricket' challenges a range of orthodoxies, arguing that cricket constituted a foundational, yet almost entirely ignored aspect of the way in which Windrush migrants settled and made new lives in postwar England.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-198754-9
Schlagworte:
Cricket > Social aspects > England.
Caribbeans > Cultural assimilation > England.
Caribbeans > England > Social conditions.
Sports > England > Sociological aspects.
Sport.
Sports & active outdoor recreation.
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