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Author: Jason Wilson Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459749979 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
Celebrating Canadian athletes and sporting history. The cultural impact of sport on a nation is not slight. Famous for a Time explores a number of important, if not well remembered, Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation’s complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation. Through the prism of some exceptional athletes, the prevailing attitudes of many Canadians about class, race, masculinity, femininity, and national identity are laid bare. Here, from the sidelines, we learn how these attitudes have changed — or not, as the case may be — over time. From team sports such as lacrosse, baseball, and cricket to Canada’s cycling craze, track and field, and boxing, each chapter offers insight into an important aspect of the nation’s narrative. The winners and losers of Canada’s games simply mirror the larger questions that have faced Canadian society across three centuries.
Author: Jason Wilson Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459749979 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
Celebrating Canadian athletes and sporting history. The cultural impact of sport on a nation is not slight. Famous for a Time explores a number of important, if not well remembered, Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation’s complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation. Through the prism of some exceptional athletes, the prevailing attitudes of many Canadians about class, race, masculinity, femininity, and national identity are laid bare. Here, from the sidelines, we learn how these attitudes have changed — or not, as the case may be — over time. From team sports such as lacrosse, baseball, and cricket to Canada’s cycling craze, track and field, and boxing, each chapter offers insight into an important aspect of the nation’s narrative. The winners and losers of Canada’s games simply mirror the larger questions that have faced Canadian society across three centuries.
Author: J. A. Mangan Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0714633984 Category : Commonwealth countries Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
The contributors to this volume examine the idea of empire with the view that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change.
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library Publisher: London : The Institute ISBN: Category : Commonwealth countries Languages : en Pages : 1084
Author: Jason Wilson
Author: Jason Wilson
Author: Ontario. Legislative Library
Author: William Stewart Wallace
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Author: J. A. Mangan
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library
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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Author: Brooklyn Public Library