Ebook: Hockey: A Global History

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.|

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments PART ONE: EARLY GAMES TO 1977 1 Searching for Hockey's History 2 Folk and Field Games 3 The Montreal Birthing: 1875–77 PART TWO: A GAME BECOMES THE GAME, 1877–1920 4 Global Capitalism and the World of Sport: 1877–1920 5 Breakout in Canada: 1877–1900 6 Alternative Games: 1880–1900 7 Forecheck into America: 1890–1920 8 What Game? Forging a Distinct Product: 1890–1920 9 Whose Game? Class, Language, Race, Sex, and Nation 10 Across the Ponds: 1895–1920 PART THREE: THE DIVERGING WORLD OF CANADA'S GAME, 1920–1971 11 Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and Brand Wars 12 North American Core Brands: 1920–1945 13 Diverging North American Brands: 1920–45 14 Teams and Leagues of Their Own: 1920–1945 15 Europe, the LIHG, and Olympic Hockey: 1920–1945 16 Strength Down Center—North American Brands: 1945–1971 17 Cold Wars and International Ice: 1945–1971 18 Postwar Brand Wars: 1945–1971 PART FOUR: THE RISE OF CORPORATE HOCKEY, 1972–2010 19 The Old Order Disrupted: 1972 20 Restructuring North America: 1972–1988 21 Global Visions of Open Ice: 1972–1988 22 The Game on the Ice: 1972–1988 23 From Calgary to the KHL: 1989–2010 Epilogue: Back to the Future? Notes Index|

Paul Kitchen Award, Society for International Hockey Research, 2019 — Society for International Hockey Research
|Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition, and How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community. Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University. His publications include Canada's Game: Hockey and Identity and The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec.