{"product_id":"canadas-holy-grail","title":"Canada's Holy Grail","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup – later known as the Stanley Cup – to crown the first Canadian hockey champions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanada’s Holy Grail \u003c\/i\u003edocuments\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLord 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on primary source documentation from Lord Stanley’s archives, as well as statements by politicians and hockey enthusiasts, \u003ci\u003eCanada’s Holy Grail \u003c\/i\u003eintegrates 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Jordan B. Goldstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575304192182,"sku":"9781487501358","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487501358.jpg?v=1727457320","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/canadas-holy-grail","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}