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Thrashing Seasons - Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling (Paperback)
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Thrashing Seasons - Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling (Paperback)
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Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the
advent of today's WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by
virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton's ""Thrashing
Seasons"" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its
earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great
Depression. Wrestling was never merely a sport: residents of
Manitoba found meaning beyond the simple act of two people
struggling for physical advantage on a mat, in a ring, or on a
grassy field. Frequently controversial and often divisive,
wrestling was nevertheless a popular and resilient cultural
practice that proved adaptable to the rapidly changing social
conditions in westernCanada during its early boom period. In
addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes
who shaped wrestling's early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a
social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around
respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions
of masculinity. In doing so, ""Thrashing Seasons"" illuminates
wrestling as a complex and socially significantcultural activity,
one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians
looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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