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The Tour de France, 1903-2003 : a century of sporting structures, meanings, and values / editors, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sport in the global society.
- Sport in the global society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tour de France (Bicycle race)--History.
- Tour de France (Bicycle race).
- Bicycle racing--Social aspects--France--History.
- Bicycle racing.
- Nationalism and sports--France--History.
- Nationalism and sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Series Editor's Foreword; 1 The Tour de France: A Pre-Modern Contest in a Post-Modern Context; 2 The Changing Organization of the Tour de France and its Media Coverage—An Interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc; 3 The Tour de France and Cycling's Belle Epoque; 4 The Tour in the Inter-War Years: Political Ideology, Athletic Excess and Industrial Modernity; 5 The Economics of the Tour, 1930–2003; 6 The Tour de France as an Agent of Change in Media Production
- 7 Beating the Bounds: The Tour de France and National Identity8 French Cycling Heroes of the Tour: Winners and Losers; 9 Se faire naturaliser cycliste: The Tour and its Non-French Competitors; 10 The Tour de France and the Doping Issue; 11 A cote du Tour: Ambushing the Tour for Political and Social Causes; Chronology of the Tour 1902–2003; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index;
- Notes:
- "This group of studies first appeared as a special issue of The international journal of the history of sport ... Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-76238-4
- 0-7146-5362-4
- 1-280-04812-3
- 0-203-50241-8
- 9780203502419
- OCLC:
- 275340588
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