Postgraduate Course: An Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture & Society (online) (PGHC11523)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will explore the history of cricket from its origins to the present day and will explore this through key themes including leisure time, colonialism, race, national identity, class and gender. It will seek to use an interdisciplinary approach and to take advantage of a growing and diverse field of historiography/critical writings. |
| Course description |
This course examines the growth of cricket from the late eighteenth century to the present. Sports history offers many profound insights into the character and complexities of imperial rule. This course seeks to examine the growth and development of cricket in the 'British World'. It will look at some of the financial, social, cultural, and historical parameters influencing the game and will draw upon concepts such as globalization, identity, soft power, governance and poverty to explain and analyse the relationship between cricket, politics and society.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
The Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture & Society (HIST10455)
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Other requirements | Students cannot take this course if they completed The Imperial Game? Cricket, Culture and Society ( HIST10455) as an UG student. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the most important issues and themes connected to the global history of cricket;
- demonstrate their skills in discussion in various online forms;
- demonstrate their written skills, their analytical and theoretical skills in their coursework;
- arrive at independent, well-argued, well-documented and properly referenced conclusions in their coursework essay;
- exhibit an understanding of different conceptual approaches to the study of history.
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Reading List
1. D. Birley, A Social History of Cricket (1999)
2. I. Duncan, Skirting the Boundary: A History of Women's Cricket (2013)
3. Manthia Diawara, 'Englishness and Blackness: Cricket as Discourse on Colonialism', Callaloo, Vol. 13, no. 4 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 830-844
4. David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg & Andrew Smith (eds.), Marxism, Colonialism & Cricket: C.L.R. James's Beyond a Boundary (2018)
5. David Frith & Gideon Haigh, Inside Story: Unlocking Australian Cricket's Archives (2007)
6. Ramchandra Guha, 'Cricket and Politics in Colonial India', Past & Present, no. 161 (Nov. 1998), pp. 155-190
7. Gideon Haigh, The Cricket War: The Inside Story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket (2017)
8. K. McCrone, Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914 (1988)
9. A. Odendaal, "Neither cricketers nor ladies': Towards a history of women and cricket in South Africa, 1860-2001', International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 28, no. 1. (2011), pp. 115-136
10. Neil Tranter, Sport, Economy and Society in Britain 1750-1914 (1998)
11. W. Vamplew, Pay Up and Play the Game: Professional Sport in Britain, 1875-1914 (1988)
12. J. Williams, Cricket and England, A Cultural and Social History of the Interwar Years (1999) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Skills in research and analysis
Oral communication skills (through live seminar participation)
Written communication skills through the writing the 4,000 word essay and weekly discussion posts |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr David Kaufman
Tel: (0131 6)51 3857
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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