Table of Contents

1. Preface 2. Cricket’s Imperial Crisis: the 1932-33 MCC Tour of Australia 3. Sport and Society 1890 – 1940: A Foray 4. Illusion or Reality: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Sport 5. Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: A Preliminary Ethnohistory 6. Caribbean Cricket: The Role of Sport in Emerging Small-nation Politics 7. Sport, Cultural Imperialism and Colonial Response in the British Empire 8. Wide World of Golf: A Research Note on the Interdependence of Sport, Culture and Economy 9. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Windows on the World 10. Sport, Television, Interpretation and Practice Reconsidered: Televised Golf and Analytical Orthodoxies 11. A Transnational View 12. Orientalism, Golf and the Modern Age: Joe Kirkwood in Asia 13. Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket

About the Author

Professor Brian Stoddart is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at La Trobe University in Australia, and has long been recognised as a leading international authority on sports culture. He has published widely on Australian sport, sport in the British Empire, golf history and cricket, especially that of the Caribbean