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START OF PLAY - By David Underdown - Hardback Book - ISBN: 0713993308 | |
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| Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. Setting Hambledon thoroughly in its historical context - social, cultural and political - is the main purpose of this book. Underdown begins with a detailed and revealing account of the origins of cricket in the Kent and Sussex villages in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and its prosperity under aristocrats such as Charles II's grandson, the second Duke of Richmond. Cricket, he shows, was an important accompaniment to the balls, assemblies, concerts and other features of the culture of the well-to-do. But he sets this alongside discussion of cudgel-play, cock-fighting and many other popular sports and pastimes, so that cricket is not seen, as it so often has been, in isolation.
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PUBLISHER: ALLEN LANE / THE PENGUIN PRESS
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PUBLISHED: 2000
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SIZE: 240MM X 160MM
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PAGES: 258
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HARDBACK
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CONDITION: FINE IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. BLANK BOOKPLATE ON FRONT END PAPER.
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1 COPY ONLY. BUY NOW
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| Reference: | ISBN: 0713993308 |
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| Weight: | 0.68 kg |
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