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Allen Lane, Date: 2000,. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0713993308 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xxi,258pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, top edges dusty, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0713993308 . 2000. Allen Lane, 2000, ISBN 0713993308 9780713993301 [GB]

Allen Lane 2000-07-09 Unabridged. hardcover Like New Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Interesting provenance: From the library of noted Princeton Professor Sir David Cannadine. Cannadine is the author of 12 books, mostly on British history.

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ISBN10: 0713993308, ISBN13: 9780713993301, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover John Nyren's famous account of the matches of the Hambledon club on Broadhalfpenny Down in the 1770s has passed into cricketing legend, establishing an ideal version of Hambledon at the centre of English cricket history. So, as David Underdown shows in many original and unexpected ways, it was. But Nyren's account conceals as much as it evokes. 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 17th century and early 18th 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. The game spread to Hampshire, and reached its apotheosis in Hambledon. Why that should have been so, and the nature of the club's glory, are among the central themes of the book. But why then did Hambledon decline? How did London come to dominate the cricketing life of the nation so quickly? What was happening to ...