- June 7, 2016
Please join Lakehead University for the launch of C. Nathan Hatton’s Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling.
When: Tuesday, June 7, 6:00 p.m.
Where: Finlandia Club (314 Bay Street), Thunder Bay
Cost: FREE
About the Book
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s Thrashing Seasons tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth century, to the Great Depression.
In addition to chronicling the colourful exploits of the many athletes who shaped wrestling’s early years, Hatton explores wrestling as a social phenomenon intimately bound up with debates around respectability, ethnicity, race, class, and idealized conceptions of masculinity. In doing so, Thrashing Seasons illuminates wrestling as a complex and socially significant cultural activity, one that has been virtually unexamined by Canadian historians looking at the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
About the Author
C. Nathan Hatton teaches history at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. In addition to writing and researching on the topic, he has been actively involved in the wrestling arts for much of is life. A purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Hatton also instructs in the style and has served as an assistant high school wrestling coach. He was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan and raised in the communities of Prairie River, Saskatchewan and White River, Ontario.
