| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Lacrosse: A History of the Game. By Donald M. Fisher. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 361 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6938-2.)

In this first scholarly history of lacrosse, Donald M. Fisher seeks not only to trace the game's evolution from its Native American origins into a "modern" sport but also to explicate the game's meanings for various groups. For example, after it was appropriated from the Mohawk Indians by Euro-Canadians in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fisher finds, the history of lacrosse in Canada entailed a contested terrain. George Beers, frequently hailed as the father of the modern game, sought to employ lacrosse on behalf of middle-class Victorian values and to make it Canada's national game. But other Canadians, mostly members of the immigrant working class, opposed Beers's middle-class amateur version of the sport. They adopted a professional, win-at-any-cost ethos. In any case, lacrosse never became a truly popular Canadian pastime; to this day, enthusiasm for the game remains limited mostly to southern Ontario and Quebec.

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