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Selling the yellow jersey : the Tour de France in the global era / Eric Reed.
LIBRA GV1049.2.T68 R44 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Eric (Professor of history), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tour de France (Bicycle race)--History.
- Tour de France (Bicycle race).
- Bicycle racing--France--History.
- Bicycle racing.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 Sport, Bicycling, and Globalization in the Print Era: Convergences and Divergences 8
- 2 The Tour, Greatest of the Turn-of-the-Century Bicycle Races 23
- 3 The Tour and Television: A Love-Hate Story 53
- 4 The French School of Cycling 82
- 5 The Tour in the Provinces: Sport and Small Cities in the Global Age 110
- 6 The Tour's Globalizing Agenda in the Television Age 139
- 7 The Global Tour and Its Stars 168.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226206530
- 022620653X
- OCLC:
- 871670667
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