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THE FIRST BLACK FOOTBALLER
ARTHUR WHARTON, 1865-1930 - AN ABSENCE OF MEMORY |
| By: |
Phil Vasili, Tony Whelan, Irvine Welsh (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£150.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0714649031 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780714649030 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 1998 |
| Series: |
Sport in the Global Society No. 11 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. This is a biography of Arthur, set in the cultural and political context of Victorian England. |
| Synopsis: |
Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Frank Cass Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |