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- catalog abstract ""Blood, Sweat and Cheers looks at the contribution of sport to the making of the Canadian nation, focusing on the gradual transition from rural sporting practices to the emphasis on team sports that accompanied the industrial and urban transformation. The book also analyses sport's pre-eminent place in our contemporary consumer-oriented culture, and the sometimes ambivalent contribution of sport to a sense of Canadian identity." "Intended as an introduction to the way in which social historians approach the history of sport, rather than as an exhaustive narrative of our sporting heritage, Colin Howell introduces readers to a number of important issues, including amateurism and professionalism, race and ethnicity, regionalism and nationalism, the impact of British and American sporting traditions upon Canadian sporting life, and the contemporary meaning of sport in a globalizing capitalist economy. He investigates discourses about respectability and the display of the body, gender construction and sexual identities, the changing nature of the sporting marketplace over time, as well as the involvement of spectators, the media, and the state in the production of our national sporting life." "Although theoretical in approach, Blood, Sweat and Cheers also looks at the accomplishments of individual athletes, including Ned Hanlan, Maurice Richard, Barbara Ann Scott, Wayne Gretzky, and Donovan Bailey, as well as major sports teams, and covers a wide array of activities from hunting, rodeo, and Native sporting traditions to those associated with the Olympic Games."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12171665.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Blood, Sweat and Cheers looks at the contribution of sport to the making of the Canadian nation, focusing on the gradual transition from rural sporting practices to the emphasis on team sports that accompanied the industrial and urban transformation. The book also analyses sport's pre-eminent place in our contemporary consumer-oriented culture, and the sometimes ambivalent contribution of sport to a sense of Canadian identity." "Intended as an introduction to the way in which social historians approach the history of sport, rather than as an exhaustive narrative of our sporting heritage, Colin Howell introduces readers to a number of important issues, including amateurism and professionalism, race and ethnicity, regionalism and nationalism, the impact of British and American sporting traditions upon Canadian sporting life, and the contemporary meaning of sport in a globalizing capitalist economy. He investigates discourses about respectability and the display of the body, gender construction and sexual identities, the changing nature of the sporting marketplace over time, as well as the involvement of spectators, the media, and the state in the production of our national sporting life." "Although theoretical in approach, Blood, Sweat and Cheers also looks at the accomplishments of individual athletes, including Ned Hanlan, Maurice Richard, Barbara Ann Scott, Wayne Gretzky, and Donovan Bailey, as well as major sports teams, and covers a wide array of activities from hunting, rodeo, and Native sporting traditions to those associated with the Olympic Games."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references: p. [147]-158.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the field -- Respectability -- Money -- Cheers -- Bodies -- Nation.".
- catalog extent "viii, 161 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0802044662 (bound) :".
- catalog identifier "0802082483 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Themes in Canadian social history ; 6".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog subject "796/.0971 21".
- catalog subject "GV585 .H56 2001".
- catalog subject "Sports Aspect social Canada Histoire.".
- catalog subject "Sports Canada Histoire 20e siècle.".
- catalog subject "Sports Canada Histoire.".
- catalog subject "Sports Canada History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Sports Canada History.".
- catalog subject "Sports Social aspects Canada History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the field -- Respectability -- Money -- Cheers -- Bodies -- Nation.".
- catalog title "Blood, sweat and cheers : sport and the making of modern Canada / Colin D. Howell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".