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For the Love of the Game

Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895

by (author) Nancy B. Bouchier

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773524569
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $65.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773570702
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $34.95

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Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.

About the author

Nancy B. Bouchier, professor of history at McMaster, explores issues of locality, gender, social class and the environment in the history of sport and physical activity. She is author of For Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small Town Ontario 1838–1895.

 

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