Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario (Studies in Gender and History)

Takes a look inside churches, hotel bars, fraternal lodge rooms, and roller-skating rinks to discover the extent to which a particular Protestant value system and lifestyle dominated small towns of the period, and discusses the nature of social relations and group identity with regard to gender, class, religion, age, and marital status. Explores two popular working class movements of the 1880s, the Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army. Includes b&w photos (though none of roller-skating rinks) . Paper edition (unseen) , $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.