Author: C. Nathan Hatton
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive, wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social conditions in western Canada during its early boom period. In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, "Thrashing Seasons" illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Thrashing Seasons
Author: C. Nathan Hatton
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive, wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social conditions in western Canada during its early boom period. In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, "Thrashing Seasons" illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554970
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive, wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social conditions in western Canada during its early boom period. In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, "Thrashing Seasons" illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Miscellaneous series, bulletin
Author: U. S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Kansas Reports
Author: Kansas. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1907 - General review of the work
Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Annual Series
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1903 - General review of the work
House documents
Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior ...
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
English Patents of Inventions, Specifications
New Genesee Farmber and Gardeners' Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description