Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
1. Colonisation and the export of sport -- 2. Diverse growth, 1840-1870 -- 3. Fashioning a middle-class game : cricket and class, 1870-1914 -- 4. A physical and moral agent, 1860-1914 -- 5. Perpetuating the straight bat : cricket and the schools, 1860-1914 -- 6. Uniting distant communities : interprovincial cricket, 1860-1914 -- 7. A fragile edifice : the New Zealand cricket council, 1894-1914 -- 8. Humble imitators at these distant antipodes : the imperial connection in the nineteenth century -- 9. A near distant neighbour : New Zealand and Australia, 1890-1914 -- 10. More English than the English : the imperial connection in the twentieth century.
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This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.