Struggle for Canadian Sport
Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men''s organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression. In The Struggle for Canadian Sport, Bruce Kidd illuminates the complex and fractious process tha...
Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men''s organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression. In The Struggle for Canadian Sport, Bruce Kidd illuminates the complex and fractious process tha...
