Robert Kossuth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kossuth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kossuth |
| SIGNATURE | KOSSUTH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fraternal Societies, Settler Colonialism, and Combat Sports on Canada’s Prairie West
In southern Alberta, Canada, during the early twentieth century, fraternal organizations such as the Oddfellows, Moose, Elks, and Eagles employed boxing and wrestling to advance their interests and assist in molding members to demonstrate the discipline and respectability expected of a member. These organizations not only appropriated symbols of the natural world—Elk, Eagle, and Moose—to stake a claim to the land and space that they occupied but …
Alan Metcalfe “at Work” Constructing Sport History
Alan Metcalfe, of the University of Windsor, was a leading figure in establishing sport history in Canada, while playing a founding role in NASSH. He served as the first editor of the Journal of Sport History, long-time editor of CJHSPE (1970–96), and NASSH president from 1983 to 1985. While maintaining research about mining communities in North East England, he is best known for his research on Canada. Through an examination of Metcalfe's profes…
Indigenous and Colonial Physical Culture in Lethbridge
On the prairie frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, sport represented one of the earliest social practices and sites of contact between migrant settlers and First Nations peoples. In Lethbridge, some of the first interactions between Indigenous peoples—primarily the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)—and Euro-Canadians occurred during this period of community-building. Examining these points of exchange through understandings of contact and colonia…
Reclaiming Canada Through Its ‘Ancient’ Sport
Lacrosse has long been considered Canada's national sport and, beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, became tied to the nationalist ambitions that sought to promote a national identity through the ‘creation’ of a uniquely Canadian game. Popular in the decades prior to the turn of the twentieth century, lacrosse in Alberta began to decline after the First World War, becoming a marginal sport played only in the province's larger c…
Reflections on Critical Sport History in the Museum
As sport historians we choose to engage in public history projects and thus are faced with both opportunities and challenges. Our involvement in the Alberta Sports History Project provides an opportunity to engage in the ongoing discussion about how members of the academy can effectively move into the realm of public sport history. By involving oneself with a museum or sports hall of fame a historian must recognize that her/his own expectations f…
Dangerous Waters
The question of providing the citizens of London, Ontario, Canada with public bathing facilities emerged in the late 1860s and persisted through the early 1920s. Initially concerns over the financial costs of such a venture trumped the need to protect public morals and ensure the physical safety of bathers. Not until the first decade of the 1900s did serious interest arise within local government to provide public facilities, prompted primarily b…
Dangerous Waters
The question of providing the citizens of London, Ontario, Canada with public bathing facilities emerged in the late 1860s and persisted through the early 1920s. Initially concerns over the financial costs of such a venture trumped the need to protect public morals and ensure the physical safety of bathers. Not until the first decade of the 1900s did serious interest arise within local government to provide public facilities, prompted primarily b…
Dangerous Waters
The question of providing the citizens of London, Ontario, Canada with public bathing facilities emerged in the late 1860s and persisted through the early 1920s. Initially concerns over the financial costs of such a venture trumped the need to protect public morals and ensure the physical safety of bathers. Not until the first decade of the 1900s did serious interest arise within local government to provide public facilities, prompted primarily b…
Reflections on Critical Sport History in the Museum
As sport historians we choose to engage in public history projects and thus are faced with both opportunities and challenges. Our involvement in the Alberta Sports History Project provides an opportunity to engage in the ongoing discussion about how members of the academy can effectively move into the realm of public sport history. By involving oneself with a museum or sports hall of fame a historian must recognize that her/his own expectations f…
Reclaiming Canada Through Its ‘Ancient’ Sport
Lacrosse has long been considered Canada's national sport and, beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, became tied to the nationalist ambitions that sought to promote a national identity through the ‘creation’ of a uniquely Canadian game. Popular in the decades prior to the turn of the twentieth century, lacrosse in Alberta began to decline after the First World War, becoming a marginal sport played only in the province's larger c…
Indigenous and Colonial Physical Culture in Lethbridge
On the prairie frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, sport represented one of the earliest social practices and sites of contact between migrant settlers and First Nations peoples. In Lethbridge, some of the first interactions between Indigenous peoples—primarily the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot)—and Euro-Canadians occurred during this period of community-building. Examining these points of exchange through understandings of contact and colonia…
Alan Metcalfe “at Work” Constructing Sport History
Alan Metcalfe, of the University of Windsor, was a leading figure in establishing sport history in Canada, while playing a founding role in NASSH. He served as the first editor of the Journal of Sport History, long-time editor of CJHSPE (1970–96), and NASSH president from 1983 to 1985. While maintaining research about mining communities in North East England, he is best known for his research on Canada. Through an examination of Metcalfe's profes…
Fraternal Societies, Settler Colonialism, and Combat Sports on Canada’s Prairie West
In southern Alberta, Canada, during the early twentieth century, fraternal organizations such as the Oddfellows, Moose, Elks, and Eagles employed boxing and wrestling to advance their interests and assist in molding members to demonstrate the discipline and respectability expected of a member. These organizations not only appropriated symbols of the natural world—Elk, Eagle, and Moose—to stake a claim to the land and space that they occupied but …
Political science (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)