Muscular learning : cricket and education in the making of the British West Indies at the end of the 19th century / Clem Seecharan.

By:

Seecharan, Clem

Publication details: Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2006.Description: xii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766372306
9789766372309

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Muscular learning.; Muscular learning.DDC classification:

972.9/04 22

LOC classification:

GV928.W47 S44 2006
F2131 .S44 2006

Online resources:

Contents:

Ch. 1. Slave society and cricket : a preliminary exploration -- Ch. 2. The elite schools and British imperialism : cricket, Christianity and the classics, the 1860s-90s, with special reference to Barbados -- Ch. 3. The making of a West Indian intelligentsia : the culture of protest in the 1890s -- Ch. 4. The first English cricketers in the West Indies and the advent of black players : Slade Lucas's tour, 1895 -- Ch. 5. Lord Hawke's (and Priestley's) tours of the West Indies, 1897 : the political context -- Ch. 6. 'Going home' : the first West Indies tour of England, 1900 -- an intellectual history -- Ch. 7. The shaping of West Indies cricket : the pitfalls and challenge of insularity, the Jamaican case, 1900 -- Ch. 8. A temperament for gradualism in the British West Indies : the intellectual and the cricketer -- App. The West Indian cricket team : full report of their first tour in England, June-August, 1900.

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Self-Renewing 2018

Summary: "Seecharan explores the role of that quintessential imperial game - cricket, and education in the shaping of identity in the British West Indies. Seecharan locates the foundations of the liberal democratic tradition in access to organized cricket by the West Indian colonial, as well as the birth of an indigenous intellectual tradition dating back to the 1890s." "He argues that in the post-emancipation period because of the comparatively small number of Europeans, coloureds or mixed race people were given early exposure to two of the main instruments of imperial rule - cricket and education. Such exposure was soon expanded to larger subordinate groups of Africans and Indians, and consequently engendered in them a belief that mastery of these two imperial idioms would accelerate their social and economic mobility. Cricket and education came to be invested with almost magical properties: indispensable indices of belonging and instruments of deliverance, resulting in the creation of a discrete Anglophone Caribbean identity in spite of resilient ethnic rivalries."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-360) and index.

"Seecharan explores the role of that quintessential imperial game - cricket, and education in the shaping of identity in the British West Indies. Seecharan locates the foundations of the liberal democratic tradition in access to organized cricket by the West Indian colonial, as well as the birth of an indigenous intellectual tradition dating back to the 1890s." "He argues that in the post-emancipation period because of the comparatively small number of Europeans, coloureds or mixed race people were given early exposure to two of the main instruments of imperial rule - cricket and education. Such exposure was soon expanded to larger subordinate groups of Africans and Indians, and consequently engendered in them a belief that mastery of these two imperial idioms would accelerate their social and economic mobility. Cricket and education came to be invested with almost magical properties: indispensable indices of belonging and instruments of deliverance, resulting in the creation of a discrete Anglophone Caribbean identity in spite of resilient ethnic rivalries."--BOOK JACKET.