Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017
Stephen Wagg
(Routledge)
Stephen Wagg has set himself the ambitious task of writing a definitive political history of contemporary cricket.
His study of politics considers, among many things, the impact of the Dutch Reformed Church on initiating apartheid in South Africa and how in 2016 CARICOM (the twenty-strong free trade association of Caribbean nations) called for a dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board.
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son


