The British World and an Australian National Identity Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860-1901 /

• Main Author: van Duinen, Jared (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics,
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Social history.; Cultural History.; Australasian History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Social History.
• Physical Description: VII, 85 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137527783
• ISSN: 2365-998X
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52778-3

This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the 'British World' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national identity. Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture. Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of an Australian national identity.