Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the by C. Nathan Hatton

By C. Nathan Hatton

Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; lengthy prior to the arrival of today’s WWE, sorts of wrestling have been practised by means of almost each cultural workforce. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the tale of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins within the eighteenth century, to the good Depression.

Wrestling was once by no means only a activity: citizens of Manitoba came across which means past the easy act of 2 humans suffering for actual virtue on a mat, in a hoop, or on a grassy box. usually arguable and sometimes divisive, wrestling used to be however a favored and resilient cultural perform that proved adaptable to the speedily altering social stipulations in western
Canada in the course of its early growth interval.

In addition to chronicling the vibrant exploits of the various athletes who formed wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon in detail certain up with debates round respectability, ethnicity, race, type, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, "Thrashing Seasons" illuminates wrestling as a posh and socially significant
cultural task, one who has been almost unexamined via Canadian historians taking a look at the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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