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Cricket and Empire (RLE Sports Studies)

The 1932-33 Bodyline Tour of Australia

By: Ric Sissons, Brian Stoddart

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eBook | 24 April 2014 | Edition Number 1

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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.