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\"Until the 1990s, the bulk of hockey history was focused on the National Hockey League and its celebrities, was written by Canadians for Canadians, and was not scholarly in either research methods or presentation. That has begun to change, but only slightly, as evidenced in the slew of breezy, triumphant books published this year as the NHL celebrates its centennial. Based on 25 years of research, this book re-centers hockey's story toward a North Atlantic panorama that unfolded over the last two centuries amid currents of global capitalism. Rather than assume the domination of one Canadian version of hockey, this project traces the history of convergence, divergence and reconvergence of a range of hockeys, via stories of people, organizations, venues, contests, equipment, coaching strategies, marketing schemes, and political campaigns. The story is organized around dates that emerged from primary sources on hockey: 1875, when a new version of the game appeared in Montreal and began to move with the broadening currents of global capitalism; 1920, when the Montreal version became THE Olympic version, both solidifying its international position and spawning separate brands that spoke to nationalist aspirations arising--especially in Europe--as global capitalism collapsed during world wars, a depression, and a cold war; 1972, when a Soviet-NHL Summit Series triggered a new era when national differences slowly evaporated in favor of an NHL-centered industry we call \"corporate hockey,\" which grew amid global capitalism's return. In The Coolest Game, hockey is not just a mirror of developing economic-political-cultural systems. Instead, it is an active ingredient in making those systems\"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Industrial change, the expansion of government at all levels, and population growth all contributed to profound alterations in Ontario's social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s. The changing environment created new opportunities, new wealth, and new authority. In urbanizing Ontario, an identifiable and self-identified middle class emerged between the idle rich and the perennial working class. Using the towns of Galt and Goderich as case studies, Andrew Holman shows how middle-class identities were formed at work. He shows how businessmen, professionals, and white-collar workers developed a new sense of authority that extended beyond the workplace. As local electors, members of voluntary associations and reform societies, and breadwinners, middle-class men set standards of proper and expected behavior for themselves and others, standards for respectable behavior that continued to enjoy currency and relevance throughout the twentieth century.

Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).

In these years, the best senior hockey teams in the American Northwest Interior had some Canadian players on their rosters, but a significant number of American-born skaters too. The Butte Shamrocks featured \"Fleming,\" a \"star player\" from Ontario, the Columbias had \"Neill,\" who had played two seasons with Winnipeg, and Spokane had captain Ernie McCaugherty, who had played on \"strong Canadian teams.\" Canadian \"stars\" attracted the attention of local newspapers, clearly, but hockey teams in the American Northwest interior were not wholly British Columbian transplants; not, as the Nelson newspaper once suggested, \"composed largely of former Boundary hockeyists.\"(43) A feature story on the local team in a March 1911 edition of the Missoula Sentinel provides rare detail on the composition of these early hockey teams and illustrates this fact (see figure 3). Under the caption \"Missoula Hockey Champions\" was a team photograph and two columns dedicated to describing the team's seven players, including \"Matt Lucy, left wing,...a Missoula-reared boy...J.O. Safford,...a native of Massachusetts and [a product] of Harvard university...H.T. Thane...from St. Paul, Minn., where he played in the school league.\" Three of the team's other members were from New Brunswick, and a final player's origins were not specified (figure 3).(44) The point here is simple, but important. Hockey was not a game reserved for Canadian expatriates in Missoula or other places in the American northwest. It had the interest, following, and participation of American-born residents, too. Despite this, the biggest attraction for northwest borderland American hockey clubs in these years was in Canada, at the Rossland Winter Carnival international tournament in mid-February. Initially modest, the Rossland Winter Carnival grew significantly in the years after 1900. Excursion trains carrying carnival goers came from all parts of the Western Interior, from both sides of the line. \"Large contingents of visitors arrived from Nelson, the Boundary and points along the Spokane Falls & Northern [Railroad] today,\" a Daily News reporter wrote from Rossland in early February 1906. \"[T]he carnival is very successful.\" Carnival organizers promoted two hockey tournament series, the British Columbia championship for which organizers invited the ablest teams from across the province, and the International Tournament which, by definition, involved hockey clubs from both sides of the Canadian-American border. The International Championship tournament was created in 1907, and after 1911, the tournament victor was awarded a sizeable trophy, the \"International Cup.\" These tournaments were the centerpiece of the whole event: \"Rossland Winter Carnival\" a front-page headline in the Nelson Weekly News read in January 1910, \"Hockey-Championship of BC and International Championship.\" The Spokane Spokesman-Review echoed in early February: \"Rossland Carnival This Week...Hockey Tourney Booked.\"(45) Local teams with good records were invited to play, but over time even uninvited clubs with high self-assessments began to seek invitations to play. \"Big Carnival\" read one February 1910 headline in the Nelson Weekly News, \"Vancouver and Spokane want Senior Hockey Games.\"(46)

In fall 2012, a funny thing happened to the start of the National Hockey League’s ninety-sixth season of operation. It didn’t. Negotiations to renew the collective-bargaining agreement with the players union stalled, so the twenty-nine franchise owners imposed a lockout. It was the third since 1993 for Commissioner Gary Bettman. The league wanted a reduction in players’ share of hockey-related revenues, a ten-year minimum of service before unrestricted free agency, a five-year limit on players’ contracts, elimination of salary arbitration, and other measures. The NHLPA balked, taking the NHL to Canadian provincial courts in Quebec and Alberta to contest (unsuccessfully)

In April 2004 , the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS/AEC) held a one-day symposium at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) in Gatineau, Quebec, on the heady subject: “The Rocket.” The scholarly event was timed to coincide with the grand opening of the CMC’s exhibit on the life and times of the Montreal Canadiens superstar and Quebec nationalist icon Maurice Richard, a massive production that occupied a special exhibitions gallery for more than ten months (and probably would have continued to draw visitors had it remained there longer). Significantly, this event was the first time that the interdisciplinary (and normally