Greg Ryan

The Making of New Zealand Cricket

1832-1914

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780714684826
• ISBN-10: 0714684821
• Artikelnr.: 21310506

Autorenporträt

GREG RYAN

Inhaltsangabe

1. Colonisation and the export of sport 2. Diverse growth, 1840-1870 3.
Fashioning a middle-class game: cricket and class, 1870-1914 5.
Perpetuating the straight bat: cricket and the schools, 1860-1914 6.
Uniting distant communities: interprovincial cricket, 1860-1914 7. A
fragile edifice: the New Zealand Cricket Council, 1894-1914 8. Humble
imitators at these distant antipodes: the imperial connection in the
nineteenth century 9. A near distant neighbour: New Zealand and Australia,
1890-1914 10. More English than the English: the imperial connection in the
twentieth century. Conclusion