Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture In Manitoba And The Genesis Of Prairie Wrestling

Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today's WWE, forms of wrestling were practiced by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton's Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from the pre-Confederation period to the Great Depression. Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon, intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity.

• | Author: C. Nathan Hatton
• | Publisher: University Of Manitoba Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 22, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0887558003
• | ISBN-13: 9780887558009