Thrashing seasons : sporting culture in Manitoba and the genesis of prairie wrestling /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winnipeg :
University of Manitoba Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780887558009 0887558003 |