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Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket

Duncan Stone
3.90/5 (47 ratings)
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In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”

A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s elitist orthodoxy. Regrettably, he failed, and the history of cricket in England remains as it did a century ago — until now.

In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were developed in order to divide the English at every level of the game.

Indeed, be it the discrete cricket cultures of the “urban” North and the “rural” South of England, gender, social class or race; the history of recreational cricket tells us more about the (un)changing nature of English society — and how it works — than any study of the first-class game ever could.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Repeater Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913462803
ISBN13:
9781913462802
kindle Asin:
B09ND1H9CG

Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket

Duncan Stone
3.90/5 (47 ratings)
Read Download
In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”

A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s elitist orthodoxy. Regrettably, he failed, and the history of cricket in England remains as it did a century ago — until now.

In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were developed in order to divide the English at every level of the game.

Indeed, be it the discrete cricket cultures of the “urban” North and the “rural” South of England, gender, social class or race; the history of recreational cricket tells us more about the (un)changing nature of English society — and how it works — than any study of the first-class game ever could.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Repeater Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913462803
ISBN13:
9781913462802
kindle Asin:
B09ND1H9CG

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