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Hockey's ability to tell stories about Canada that reflect the country's uniqueness - its strengths and weaknesses

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Canada's Game deals both critically and sympathetically with hockey's important place in Canadian cultural life, and helps to explain why - in addition to the nostalgic myth-making that surrounds the game - hockey is so important to so many Canadians. There is no other book out there that captures the complexity of hockey's historical and contemporary reach. Colin Howell, St. Mary's University Holman's introduction is gracefully written and provides one the best essays on hockey and the Canadian identity. Drawing on literature, history, and economics, and covering a wide-range of hockey-related subjects, the various collected essays are interesting and original contributions to the growing scholarship on hockey. David J. Whitson, University of Alberta

Canada's Game deals both critically and sympathetically with hockey's important place in Canadian cultural life, and helps to explain why - in addition to the nostalgic myth-making that surrounds the game - hockey is so important to so many Canadians. There is no other book out there that captures the complexity of hockey's historical and contemporary reach. Colin Howell, St. Mary's University Holman's introduction is gracefully written and provides one the best essays on hockey and the Canadian identity. Drawing on literature, history, and economics, and covering a wide-range of hockey-related subjects, the various collected essays are interesting and original contributions to the growing scholarship on hockey. David J. Whitson, University of Alberta

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Andrew C. Holman is professor of history and Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

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