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The Tour de France : a cultural history / Christopher S. Thompson.
LIBRA GV1049.2.T68 T56 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Christopher S., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tour de France (Bicycle race)--History.
- Tour de France (Bicycle race).
- Bicycle racing--Social aspects--France.
- Bicycle racing.
- Bicycle racing--Social aspects.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- The Tour de France is the definitive cultural history of this famous race from its origins to Lance Armstrong's exit in 2005. Wonderfully written and full of memorable stories and images, it shows above all how the French have used the Tour de France through the dramatic changes of their twentieth century, to generate ideas about what it means to be French.
- Contents:
- La grande boucle : cycling, progress, and modernity
- Itineraries, narratives, and identities
- The géants de la route : gender and heroism
- L'auto's ouvriers de la pédale : work, class, and the Tour de France, 1903-1939
- The forçats de la route : exploits, exploitation, and the politics of athletic excess, 1903-1939
- What price heroism? work, sport, and drugs in postwar France.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520247604
- OCLC:
- 61285606
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520247604
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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