The Tour de France, updated with a new preface : a cultural history / Christopher S. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Christopher S., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bicycle racing--Social aspects--France.

Bicycle racing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 385 p. [16] p. of plates) : ill., map.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 2008 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. La Grande Boucle: Cycling, Progress, and Modernity

2. Itineraries, Narratives, and Identities

3. The Géants de la Route: Gender and Heroism

4. L'Auto s Ouvriers de la Pédale: Work, Class, and the Tour de France, 1903-1939

5. The Forçats de la Route: Exploits, Exploitation, and the Politics of Athletic Excess, 1903-1939

6. What Price Heroism? Work, Sport, and Drugs in Postwar France

Epilogue

Appendix: Racers' Occupations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520351134

0520351134

9780520934863

0520934865

OCLC:

1198929551