Canada's Game: Hockey and Identity - Hardcover

Holman, Andrew C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773535977 ISBN 13: 9780773535978

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).

About this title

About the Author

Andrew C. Holman is professor of history and Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Review

Canada's Game deals both critically and sympathetically with hockey's important place in Canadian cultural life, and helps to explain why - in addition to the nostalgic myth-making that surrounds the game - hockey is so important to so many Canadians. There is no other book out there that captures the complexity of hockey's historical and contemporary reach." Colin Howell, St. Mary's University "Holman's introduction is gracefully written and provides one the best essays on hockey and the Canadian identity. Drawing on literature, history, and economics, and covering a wide-range of hockey-related subjects, the various collected essays are interesting and original contributions to the growing scholarship on hockey." David J. Whitson, University of Alberta

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0773535977
• ISBN 13: 9780773535978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236