The Cultural Bond

The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at various times and in various places imperial unity, national identity, social reform, recreational development and post-imperial goodwill.

Mangan, J.A.

Prologue: Britain's Chief Spiritual Export, J.A. Mangan; Chapter 1 A Sacred Trinity - Cricket, School, Empire, Tozer Malcolm; Chapter 2 The MCC, Society and Empire, Bradley James; Chapter 3 Salvation for the Fittest? A West African Sportsman in the Age of the New Imperialism, Jenkins Ray; Chapter 4 Emancipation, Exercise and Imperialism, Janice N. Brownfoot; Chapter 5 The Cambridge Connection, G. M. Hibbins; Chapter 6 Symbols of Imperial Unity, Cashman Richard; Chapter 7 Football on the Maidan, Tony Mason; Chapter 8 Viceregal Patronage, Gerald Redmond; Chapter 9 Badge of Office, Anthony Kirk-Greene; Chapter 10 'The Warmth of Comradeship', Katharine Moore; Teaching the Nations How to Play, Harold Perkin;