By Jordan B. Goldstein. Published in 2021 by University of Toronto Press (342 pp., $32.95 USD , Paperback) Jordan B. Goldstein’s book Canada’s Holy Grail: Lord Stanley’s Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup is an ambitious attempt to tackle Frederick Stanley’s political and cultural
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Canada’s Holy Grail: Lord Stanley’s Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup
Greggory Ross
Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization
Chad Seifried
stadia. It is clear from this section and information provided in other chapters that the motivation for large stadia focused on the generation of gate receipts but it is also clear that these stadia were meant to communicate messages to alumni, potential students, and the media that Big Ten schools were
Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent, and Patriotism in 21st Century America
Ryan Murtha
few years, you will come away with an understanding of Kaepernick’s motivations behind his now-iconic protest as well as how those motivations were largely lost in the larger discourse. Though the table of contents claims the book contains six parts, it has really just two. The first third of the book
Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
Erin Redihan
Management at De Montfort University, does an excellent job of describing the steps taken and the motivations of the many officials who impacted this process and, ultimately, demonstrated that Cold War concerns would give sport a heightened role in American diplomacy. If there is a weakness with this book
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Theory (2001); Experiencing Sport: Reversal Theory (1999); Motivation and Emotion in Sport (1997); Understanding Soccer Hooliganism (1994). He is a former high level rugby player and coach. Jörg Krieger is a sport historian and associate professor in the Department of Public Health at Aarhus
“Stepping Up” for Trans Inclusion in Sport
Lindsay Parks Pieper
community’s claim that it belongs in the here and now.” 4 We have work to do to ensure that sport history is a space for trans people. In writing this response, I acknowledge my positionality affords me power. Transfeminist methodologies encourage scholars to interrogate their identities and motivations
Sports, scoutisme et nationalisme au Tonkin (1920–1945)
Brice Fossard
du développement des sports et du scoutisme. Puis, nous avons analysé leurs stratégies et leurs motivations ; nous voulions découvrir comment leur affinité pour les sports et le scoutisme les avait fait entrer dans le champ politique. Le parcours de ces deux nationalistes est assez remarquable car
Retouched and Remarkable: Female Athletes in La Culture Physique (1904) as Historical and Visual Documentation
Rachel Ozerkevich
ultimate goal of becoming “beautiful and strong” by following science-based training methods. And images of visual models—mostly men but some women, too—provided an important source of motivation and inspiration. 24 According to the editors, La Culture Physique’s readers needed their taste for artistic
“The New Woman and the Manly Art”: Women and Boxing in Nineteenth-Century Canada
MacIntosh Ross and Kevin B. Wamsley
physical dangers of the profession. Although the reasons a woman might enter the sex trade are quite clear, Clark’s motivations for leaving Canada West for Buffalo are less apparent. For an enterprising sex worker, the Erie Canal provided Buffalo with a regular supply of sex-seeking sailors, but Lake
Building the Transnational “Body Beautiful”—K.V. Iyer and the Circulation of Bodybuilding Practices between India and the United States
Aishwarya Ramachandran and Conor Heffernan
was invited to train Italian navy cadets and Portuguese school children by Benito Mussolini and António de Oliveira Salazar. His motivations were, in part, explained by a desire to validate both his exercise systems and his knowledge of detractors in the United States. 92 Iyer’s physique and
