Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910-1971 From Union to Isolation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murray, Bruce (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Parry, Richard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Winch, Jonty (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics,
• Subjects: Africa-History.; History, Modern.; Social history.; Imperialism.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; African History.; Modern History.; Social History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
• Physical Description: XX, 383 p. 18 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319936086
• ISSN: 2365-998X
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93608-6

This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the racist ideology of empire, its 'arrested development' and the reliance of South Africa on a racially based exploitative labour system. This edited collection uncovers the hidden history of cricket, society, and empire in defining a multiplicity of South African identities, and recognises the achievements of forgotten players and their impact. .