Hockey: A Global History

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Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon—and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world—and vice versa.|CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsPART ONE: EARLY GAMES TO 19771 Searching for Hockey's History2 Folk and Field Games3 The Montreal Birthing: 1875–77PART TWO: A GAME BECOMES THE GAME, 1877–19204 Global Capitalism and the World of Sport: 1877–19205 Breakout in Canada: 1877–19006 Alternative Games: 1880–19007 Forecheck into America: 1890–19208 What Game? Forging a Distinct Product: 1890–19209 Whose Game? Class, Language, Race, Sex, and Nation10 Across the Ponds: 1895–1920PART THREE: THE DIVERGING WORLD OF CANADA'S GAME, 1920–197111 Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and Brand Wars12 North American Core Brands: 1920–194513 Diverging North American Brands: 1920–4514 Teams and Leagues of Their Own: 1920–194515 Europe, the LIHG, and Olympic Hockey: 1920–194516 Strength Down Center—North American Brands: 1945–197117 Cold Wars and International Ice: 1945–197118 Postwar Brand Wars: 1945–1971PART FOUR: THE RISE OF CORPORATE HOCKEY, 1972–201019 The Old Order Disrupted: 197220 Restructuring North America: 1972–198821 Global Visions of Open Ice: 1972–198822 The Game on the Ice: 1972–198823 From Calgary to the KHL: 1989–2010Epilogue: Back to the Future?NotesIndex|Paul Kitchen Award, Society for International Hockey Research, 2019— Society for International Hockey Research|Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition, and How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community. Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University. His publications include Canada's Game: Hockey and Identity and The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec.