| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 236 pages : illustrations) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Canada's game? Hockey and the problem of identity / Andrew C. Holman -- I: Community, region, nation: hockey and the contexts of identity -- Big liners and beer gardens: the Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the selection controversy surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team / Greg Gillespie -- Are American's really hockey villains? A new perspective on the American influence on Canada's national game / Craig Hyatt and Julie Stevens -- Confronting a compelling other: the summit series and the nostalgic (trans)formation of Canadian identity / Brian Kennedy -- II: Forging identity through fiction -- "Just part of the game": depictions of violence in hockey prose / Jason Blake -- Win Orr lose: searching for the good Canadian kid in Canadian hockey fiction / Jamie Dopp -- The mystery of a Canadian father of hockey stories: Leslie McFarlane's break away from the Hardy Boys / Karen E.H. Skinazi -- III: Buying and selling identities: hockey as commodity -- "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the metropolitan": professional hockey spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto / Russell Field -- Between a puck and a showpiece: spectator sport and the differing responses to hockey (and its absence) in Canada and the United States -- a Canadian poet looks at the fate of the game / Richard Harrison -- Forever proud? The Montreal Canadiens' transition from the forum to the Molson Centre / Robert Dennis -- Manufacturing players and controlling sports: an interpretation of the political economy of hockey and the 2004 NHL lockout / Julian Ammirante. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hockey Canada.
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Hockey Canada. |
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Hockey Canada. |
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Hockey -- Canada.
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Hockey. |
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Canada. |
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Hockey -- Social aspects -- Canada.
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Hockey -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773535985 |
| ISBN |
9780773575912 (electronic book) |
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077357591X (electronic book) |
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9780773535985 |
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9780773535978 |
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0773535977 |
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0773535985 |
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