Canada's Holy Grail

Canada's Holy Grail
Author: Jordan B. Goldstein
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487513003


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In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup – later known as the Stanley Cup – to crown the first Canadian hockey champions. Canada’s Holy Grail documents Lord Stanley’s personal politics, his desire to affect Canadian nationality and unity, and the larger transformations in Anglo-liberal political thought at the time. This book posits that the Stanley Cup fit directly within Anglo-American traditions of using sport to promote ideas of the national, and the donation of the cup occurred at a moment in history when Canadian nationalists needed identifying symbols. Jordan B. Goldstein asserts that only with a transformation in Anglo-liberal thought could the state legitimately act through culture to affect national identity. Drawing on primary source documentation from Lord Stanley’s archives, as well as statements by politicians and hockey enthusiasts, Canada’s Holy Grail integrates political thought into the realm of sport history through the discussion of a championship trophy that still stands as one of the most well-known and recognized Canadian national symbols.


Canada's Holy Grail
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Jordan B. Goldstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Pages: 410
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Categories: History
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Pages: 422
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Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors:
Categories: Fiction
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Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Richard W. Barber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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