Cricket as a colonial weapon
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Cricket and England in the Nineteenth Century
We use to writat the game of cricket conjured images of eng bucolic past mecoul eloon, analite. These kind of images gradually became very strong reminders of what was english about england. And these also served to differentiate england from its other parts of the united kingdom, like scotland or wales. So there was this mythologization and romanticization of rustic, rural england.
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