Andrew Holman

Biographic Data

ID5015402
NAMEAndrew Holman
GIVEN NAMESAndrew
FAMILY NAMEHolman
SIGNATUREHOLMAN A
AFFILIATIONSBridgewater State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • M. Ann Hall, Bruce Kidd, and Patricia Vertinsky, Educating the Body

    Open AccessAndrew Holman, Andrew C HolmanARTICLEHistorical Studies in Education /…2026

    Co-authored by three giants in the fields of sport history and the history of physical education, this volume traces the checkered career of physical education in both the Canadian school curriculum and Canadian society from the 1840s to the current day.The book can be described as part history, part celebration, part lament, and part prescription.Its strength derives in good measure from the accomplishments and experiences of these three authors…

  • Pursuing Play

    Open AccessAndrew HolmanARTICLECanadian Historical Review2025

  • Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent

    Andrew HolmanARTICLEHistoire sociale2024

    Reviewed by: Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842–1898 ed. by J.I. Little Andrew Holman Little, J.I., ed. – Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842–1898. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 202 p. No Canadian historian has written more about the complex social and cultural history of Quebec's Eastern Townships than Jack Little, a…

  • Celebrating Fifty Years of ARCS

    Andrew Holman, Brian K Payne et al.ARTICLEThe American Review of Canadian…2021

    "Celebrating Fifty Years of ARCS." American Review of Canadian Studies, 51(1), pp. 1–2

  • More of a Man

    Andrew Holman, Robert K KristoffersonBOOKMore of a Man2013

    Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.

  • The Canadian Hockey Player Problem

    Open AccessAndrew Holman, Andrew C HolmanARTICLECanadian Historical Review2007

    This article is a study in the social history of Canadian-American relations and it performs two functions. First, it traces the increasing presence of Canadian student athletes in American collegiate hockey, 1947–80, and the efforts of coaches, recruiters, administrators, and alumni to draw Canadians to US hockey programs. By the end of the 1950s Canadian student athletes dominated the American collegiate game – a pattern that abated only in the…

  • Playing in the Neutral Zone

    Andrew Holman, Andrew C HolmanARTICLEThe American Review of Canadian…2004

    The part performed by Canada in making contributions to the list of the world's amusements has been by no means slight. Lacrosse and canoeing for the warm bright days of summer, snow-shoeing and tobogganing for the crisp cold nights of winter, these make up a quartette of healthy, hearty sports, the superiors of which, in their appropriate season, any other country might safely be challenged to show. But apparently this ambitious colony not conte…

  • A Sense of Their Duty

    Andrew Holman, Andrew Carl HolmanBOOKA sense of their duty2000

    What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone of economic change, the motor of political reform, and the source of one set of moral standards, has eluded systematic study. A Sense of Their Duty corr…

  • "Cultivation" and the Middle-Class Self in Nineteenth-Century America

    Andrew HolmanARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1992References: 3

    Christopher Mulvey. Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth- Century Anglo-American Travel Literature. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1990. Pp. vii + 243 and illustrations. John F. Kasson. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. Pp. v + 305 and illustrations. Marlene Deahl Merrill, ed. Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874. …