Class Peace An Analysis Of Social Status And English Cricket 1846 1962

Author : Eric Midwinter
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781908165862

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Class Peace: An Analysis of Social Status and English Cricket 1846-1962 by Eric Midwinter Pdf

Cricket, in its modern formulation, was in the ascendant as a national sport from early Victorian times to the immediate post-World War II years. That corresponded, roughly, to a hundred or so years span in which the working and middle classes were most distinctively identified – and yet were most solidly united in values and attitudes. This curious amalgam of cross-class ‘cultural integration’ characterised cricket then, most notably in the ‘Gentlemen and Players’ convention but also in recreational cricket and among what was in those days the huge spectatorship for cricket. County cricket, especially, with its unusual combine of the plebeian professional and the bourgeois amateur, is a classic example of how an aspiring working class and an earnest middle class contrived to find common ground, and even some mutual respect, without ever disturbing the overt social barriers. In cricket, as in society at large, there was ‘class peace’ rather than class war.

Author : Jeremy Lonsdale
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912421206

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A Game Divided: Triumphs and troubles in Yorkshire cricket in the 1920s by Jeremy Lonsdale Pdf

Between 1922 and 1925 Yorkshire County Cricket Club won the County Championship four years in a row, making it one of the most successful sides ever in the history of the English county game. A line-up which included Wilfred Rhodes, Percy Holmes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay and Maurice Leyland dominated English cricket for much of the decade, taking a highly professional approach to the game. Unsurprisingly, they were heroes to many, but despite this success, the side was at times unpopular and the subject of trenchant criticism. A Game Divided takes as its starting point the events during the match between Yorkshire and Middlesex at Sheffield in July 1924, which provoked a falling out between the counties. These events and how they were portrayed shine a light on many of the divisions in English cricket of the time – between north and south, amateur and professional, employer and employee, and between different perspectives on sportsmanship and the style in which the game should be played. The book looks at the triumphs and troubles that shaped Yorkshire cricket in the decade and asks just how great was this side of match-winners.

Author : Eric Midwinter
Publisher : Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912421060

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‘His Captain’s hand on his shoulder smote’: The incidence and influence of cricket in schoolboy stories by Eric Midwinter Pdf

For a hundred years, from about the 1850s to the 1950s, schoolboy stories were voraciously read by the vast majority of boys and a high proportion of girls. A huge proportion of these ‘ripping yarns’ were school-based stories – and cricket was an invariable element, From Tom Brown’s Schooldays to the ‘Red Circle’ tales of the Hotspur comic, older children of all classes were inducted into a culture in which cricket was admired as the ideal sport. Inevitably, this led to generations of parents and, importantly, teachers inculcating this concept into their offspring and pupils respectively. The chief relevant authors were self-proclaimed protagonists of the faith of Muscular Christianity; there was no accident about the creed they preached in their stories, inclusive of the righteous role of cricket in pursuit of their ideals. This text describes the sheer weight and longevity of cricket in this type of literature and the background and beliefs of its major progenitors. That also analyses the cultural and social impact of this intense volume of schoolboy cricket tales. The author’s controversial conclusion is that, in brief, it was good for cricket but bad for the nation’s education system. Here is a book, then, that will appeal not only to cricket fans but to those interested in children’s literature, social history and the development of today’s schools.

Author : Geoff Lemon
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781743586150

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Steve Smith's Men by Geoff Lemon Pdf

He was top of the world, with numbers bettered only by Don Bradman – then captain Steve Smith led his Australian team into a cheating scandal that stunned cricket. Media exploded and million-dollar contracts were torn up. Australia’s prime minister expressed the public anger and disappointment: ‘Our cricketers are role models, and cricket is synonymous with fair play.’ But there was more to the story than the actions of a few young men. A tangle of personality, politics and culture had led them to this point. Geoff Lemon witnessed that story from commentary boxes and press conferences, and was there in South Africa for its final act. This is a frank, fearless and often humorous account of the path from Ashes high to Cape Town low, from someone who watched it all unfold.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442936911

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Condition of the Working-Class in England by Friedrich Engels Pdf

This masterpiece by Engels reflects his views on the plight of labour classes in England. It is based on his in-depth research and parliamentary reports. In a factual and analytic manner he has voiced his support for fundamental human rights. It is an emphatic protest against the barbarianism of capitalism and industrialization. A prototypical opus!

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107611801

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English as a Global Language by David Crystal Pdf

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845137502

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A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley Pdf

Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic 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 our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.

Author : E. P. Thompson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141934891

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The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson Pdf

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839761539

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels Pdf

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition In this provocative and now-classic work, Frederick Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical development, Engels argued, constituted "the world-historic defeat of the female sex." A masterclass in the application of materialist thought to history and anthropology, and touching on love, monogamy, property, and the development of the human, this landmark work is still foundational in Marxist and socialist feminist theory.

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1100199950

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They Came for the Children by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015073568696

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Negley Harte,John North,Georgina Brewis
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787352940

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The World of UCL by Negley Harte,John North,Georgina Brewis Pdf

From its foundation in 1826, UCL embraced a progressive and pioneering spirit. It was the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion and made higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society. It was also effectively the first university to welcome women on equal terms with men. From the outset UCL showed a commitment to innovative ideas and new methods of teaching and research. This book charts the history of UCL from 1826 through to the present day, highlighting its many contributions to society in Britain and around the world. It covers the expansion of the university through the growth in student numbers and institutional mergers. It documents shifts in governance throughout the years and the changing social and economic context in which UCL operated, including challenging periods of reconstruction after two World Wars. Today UCL is one of the powerhouses of research and teaching, and a truly global university. It is currently seventh in the QS World University Rankings. This completely revised and updated edition features a new chapter based on interviews with key individuals at UCL. It comes at a time of ambitious development for UCL with the establishment of an entirely new campus in East London, UCL East, and Provost Michael Arthur’s ‘UCL 2034’ strategy which aims to secure the university’s long-term future and commits UCL to delivering global impact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCAL:B3030615

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The New Zealand Official Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : C L R James
Publisher : Random House
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446496657

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Beyond A Boundary by C L R James Pdf

'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658

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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said Pdf

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.