Abstract

The history of organised cricket in Brazil during the nineteenth century presents a compelling case study because of its development as an exclusionary social practice around British expatriate communities. In Brazil, cricket was played in many places well before Association Football became the national game. In contrast to cricket in formal British colonies in the West Indies, or English-speaking independent territories in North America, in Brazil the sport did not reach out to social groups that differed from British expatriates in language, ethnicity or social class. Club initiatives created in six Brazilian cities stand out for their economic power and political influence: the national capital (Rio de Janeiro), three state capitals (Niterói, Recife and São Paulo) and Santos and Campinas. Empire and language played a key role in defining sports cultures, as is shown by the periodicals that circulated in these cities in both Portuguese and English.

抽象的

十九世纪巴西有组织板球的历史成为一个令人信服的案例研究，因为它已发展成为英国侨民社区的排他性社会习俗。在巴西，板球早在协会足球成为全国比赛之前就曾在许多地方打过板球。与西印度群岛的正式英国殖民地或北美的讲英语的独立领土的板球形成鲜明对比的是，在巴西，这项运动并未触及在语言，种族或社会阶层上与英国外籍人士不同的社会群体。巴西六个城市创建的俱乐部计划因其经济实力和政治影响力而著称：国家首都（里约热内卢），三个州首府（尼泰罗伊，累西腓和圣保罗）以及桑托斯和坎皮纳斯。