Tag: Goolam Vahed

The edited collection Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971: From Union to Isolation by Bruce Murray, Richard Parry & Jonty Winch (Palgrave Macmillan) is a fascinating exposé of the role of cricket in the checkered twentieth century history of South Africa. In his review, our resident cricket aficionado Russell Holden is obviously both impressed and delighted.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.

Helena Tolvhed Lärarutbildningen, Malmö högskola  J. A. Mangan & Andrew Ritchie (red) Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status 240 sid, hft. London: Frank Cass 2004 Empiriska studier kring idrottens betydelse för etniska relationer är, möjligen med undantag för fotbollen, än så länge ganska fåtaliga. Antologin Ethnicity, Sport, Identity. Struggles for Status, sammanställd av J.A. Mangan och Andrew Ritchie, utgör därmed ett välkommet bidrag till forskningsläget. De 12 artiklarna berör...