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Cricket and Race. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Holt, Richard

Jack Williams. Cricket and Race. New York: Berg Publishers. 2001. Pp. ix, 231. n. p. paper. ISBN 1-85973-309-3.

Hot on the heels of writing a major contribution to the social history of England's inter-war national game--Cricket and England (1999)-Jack Williams has produced another important work on the connection between English cultural history and sport. Cricket and Race is a different sort of book to Cricket and England. It does not offer a systematic account of racial attitudes in the game. Instead, he begins with three broadly biographical chapters that are followed by a ...