[Library ebook] A Social History of English Cricket (Sports Classics)
✿ Derek Birley ✿
| #1634009 in Books | 2013-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.75 x1.25 x5.25l,.89 | File Name: 1781311765 | 400 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A history of how cricket has fit into (and reflected) English society (high, low and middle)|By Aaron Headly|While perhaps a little dry in stretches, it did give me a new, clearer picture of the game in the land of its birth. (International cricket is really only covered when it had an impact on the English game, i.e. the Jardine 'body-line' mess.)
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Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of manners, hierarchies and politics. In just under 400 pages Sir Derek Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurit...
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