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The fastest game in the world : hockey and the globalization of sports /

"Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries--between Canada and the United States, across the Atlantic,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berglund, Bruce R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:Sport in world history ; 6.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Up from the ice
  • Into the arena
  • Out of the storm
  • Toward new directions
  • On the brink
  • In the money
  • Around the world
  • Epilogue