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French rugby football : a cultural history /

As France''s oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dine, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Colección:Berg French studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As France''s oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction of masculine, class-based regional and national identities, France''s tradition of ''Champagne rugby'' continues to be as subject to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game''s precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not infrequently cau.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847880321
1847880320
1282907778
9781282907775
9786612907777
6612907770
ISSN:1354-3636