Andrew C. Holman

Professor of History
Canadian Studies Program
236 Tillinghast Hall
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA  02325  U.S.A.

 email: a2holman@bridgew.edu
telephone: (508) 531-2688

 
        www.bridgew.edu

Andrew C. Holman is an historian of Canada and the United States. His research and writing focuses on the social and cultural history of Canadian-American relations, borderlands studies and the scholarly history of Canada’s national winter game: ice hockey.

In Fall semester 2011, Dr. Holman is the Eakin Visiting Fellow in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Books

 

More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America

(co-author Robert Kristofferson) (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2012).

 

An edited and annotated diary of a Scottish journeyman craftsworker making his way toward “manhood” in mid-Victorian North America. Includes a scholarly introduction and epilogue.


 

Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009).

An edited collection of scholarly essays on what ice hockey means and has meant to Canadians and others. The essays were selected from among the very best papers given at a 2005 conference hosted by the Bridgewater State University Canadian Studies Program.


 

A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-Class Formation in Victorian Ontar... Cover Art

A Sense of Their Duty: Middle-class Formation in Victorian Ontario Towns (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000).

An examination of how the middle class developed in Victorian Galt and Goderich, Ontario, 1850-1890. The study examines contemporaries’ usages of the term “middle class” and the social structure that gave it economic and cultural power.

 

Last Updated: August 2011.