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Title Artificial ice : hockey, culture, and commerce / edited by David Whitson and Richard Gruneau
Published North York, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages)
Contents Whose sweater is this? The changing meanings of hockey in Quebec / Jean Harvey -- Selective memory in a global culture : reconsidering links between youth, hockey, and Canadian identity / Brian Wilson -- The game of whose lives? : Gender, race, and entitlement in Canada's "national" game / Mary Louise Adams -- Women's hockey in Canada: after the "gold rush" / Julie Stevens -- Hockey Canada and the bodychecking debate in minor hockey / Michael Robidoux and Pierre Trudel -- Racialization and hockey in Canada : from personal troubles to a Canadian challenge / Robert Pitter -- Playing with the big boys : smaller markets, competitive balance, and the hope for a championship team / Mark Rosentraub -- Hockey night in the United States? : The NHL, Major League Sports, and the evolving television-media marketplace / Robert Bellamy and Kelly Shultz -- Expanding the footprint? : Questioning the NHL's expansion and relocation strategy / Dan Mason -- From Maple Leaf Gardens to the Air Canada Centre : the downtown entertainment economy in "world class" Toronto / John Hannigan -- Have skates, will travel : Canada, international hockey, and the changing hockey labour market / Hart Cantelon -- Globalization in professional sport : comparisons and contrasts between hockey and European football / Julian Ammirante
Notes "Previously published by Broadview Press, 2006 Copyright ©David Whitson and Richard Gruneau. Originally published as A Garamond Book" --Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hockey -- Social aspects -- Canada
Hockey -- Economic aspects -- Canada
GAMES / Gambling / Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION / History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference.
TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports.
Hockey -- Economic aspects
Hockey -- Social aspects
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Whitson, David, editor.
Gruneau, Richard S., 1948- editor.
ISBN 9781442603134
1442603135