Cricket and Empire (RLE Sports Studies)

<p>A great depression worsening Anglo-Australian relations the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket and politics were publicly seen as part of sport. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the official interpretations of the events and places them in a unique social and political context. </p><p>. </p>