Abstract During the Pakistan military's operation in what was then East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), the Pakistan cricket team faced intense backlash from the Bengali diaspora on a summer tour of Britain in 1971. This article examines how Bengali activists organized a campaign to halt the tour to protest the Pakistan military's atrocities in their homeland, East Pakistan, sparking a broader debate on the causes of the Bangladesh liberation movement in the British press and beyond. By exploring the dynamics of this protest, the article highlights how sport became an impactful platform for political engagement and social justice. Drawing on hitherto unused archival sources, newspaper accounts, and interviews with key people from the period, it argues that the Bengali community's protest of the Pakistan cricket tour not only amplified the cause of Bangladesh's liberation but also brought international substantiation to their struggle. Furthermore, this article situates this campaign within the broader context of the emerging global human rights and civil society movements against repressive regimes in the “long 1970s,” an era when new forms of political activism challenged oppressive regimes during this period of global transition.

Abstract This article explores how sportfishing became an instrument of the Nazi regime in integrating “Aryans” into the Volksgemeinschaft (racial or national community) through coercive measures and the promise of policies benefitting anglers. Most scholarship on the structure and function of sports in the Third Reich focuses on mass participatory sports or the 1936 Olympic Games. This article shows that leisure activities also played a significant role within the Nazi state and society, as authorities controlled who had access to outdoor spaces and waters, thereby defining who was included and excluded within this Volksgemeinschaft. Restricting access to fishing waters to only “Aryans,” Nazi policies were an important part of the “social death” of German Jews. Although new sportfishing opportunities for “Aryans” fell short of Nazi promises, conquests fed anglers’ desires of the East as a space of unbound recreation. In this sense, even recreational activities such as sportfishing were inextricably tied to larger Nazi policies of exclusion, war, expansion, and potential for plunder.

Whereas many “visual” or “illustrated” histories favor the image over critical analysis, in Making Camp, Martin Hogue has created a nuanced and in-depth historical text where the visual component merely adds to a critical discussion of the history of recreational camping in North America. He immediately sets the tone by explaining that the book's title “refers to what campers ‘make’ when they camp, a set of constructions (a tent, a fire, a meal) resulting from actions that provide the practitioner with a tangible stake in their temporary settlement” (12). In this statement, and throughout the text, Hogue not only grounds his discussions of camping in architectural and social historical perspectives but also plucks methodological and theoretical strings that can be drawn from the fields of geography, anthropology, and sociology, among others.Making Camp traces the histories of eight essential camping items and activities, or what Hogue terms “architectural campground components,” “some brought in by the camper, some made from scratch, and others already in place when the camper arrives” (13). These campground components include water, campfire, campsite, map, picnic table, tent, sleeping bag, and trash. While Hogue is adamant that “Making Camp is a single book comprised of the written page matched by illustrated counterparts” (22), each component-driven chapter can be read as a microhistory, painstakingly researched and referenced with value-added illustrations.Throughout the book, Hogue cites a staggering variety of sources. As the reader would expect, classic camping volumes are commonly relied upon, yet Hogue also cites modern camping manuals, architectural plans, US patents, outdoor magazines, and secondary histories to offer more fully nuanced discussion of each topic. Within the campfire chapter, for example, Hogue not only discusses the “warmth and cheer” of the open flame but also the evolution in the design and implementation of campfire rings, the architecture of the council fire amphitheater, the adoption of the strike on box match, and the founding of the Coleman Hydro Carbon Light Company, which would give us not only the Coleman Lantern but also the camp stove. These are just some of the many discussed aspects of controlling fire for heat, light, and morale. Each of the eight chapters provides a similar series of vignettes, all tied together under a central theme.As an avid camper myself, I was taken by the numerous times within the text when Hogue seemingly invited me to engage my own memories and experiences surrounding each of his eight chosen essentials of camping. For example, Hogue's use of a Daniel Carter Beard quote that “there is not one in a hundred who can [build a campfire] successfully without a Sunday edition of the newspaper, a can of kerosene, and an armful of kindling wood” (54) reminded me of my first camping trip with college friends in Vermont, when an upperclassman from New Jersey attempted to start our campfire with nothing but a large sopping driftwood stump and a pilfered Yellow Pages.Nostalgia aside, Hogue does not shy away from the less-than-romantic aspects of camping's past. He reminds the reader of unsavory aspects of American society such as the existence of both state and federal administrated segregated campgrounds that dotted the American South in the days before the Civil Rights Act (1964). He also mentions that while modern campers employ a myriad of tools to mitigate the dangers and discomforts of rustic living, tragic loss of life still takes place. For instance, on June 11 and 12, 2010, a flash flood drowned twenty vacationers within the seemingly safe confines of an Ouachita National Forest campground.The physical book itself presents a novel design and is esthetically beautiful. Each of the eight components is signified by an icon, like those seen on amenity signs within State and National Parks. The pages blend historic photographs with endnoted text and the aforementioned icons, which makes the reader feel like they are holding an outdoor guidebook in their hands.Making Camp provides a balanced volume that employs intriguing imagery to aid in bridging the gap between scholarly monographs and popular historical books. Hogue's text would be just as much at home around a campfire in the backcountry or tucked among the roughhewn logs of a Civilian Conservation Corps built lean-to as ensconced on the lacquered oak shelves of a university library. It is an excellent addition to the body of social histories of American recreation.