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The Tour De France 1903-2003 : a Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values.
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. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor & Francis
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Series Editor's Foreword
- 1. The Tour de France: A Pre-Modern Contest in a Post-Modern Context
- Organizing, Spectating, Watching
- 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
- Meanings, Metaphors and Values
- 7. Beating the Bounds: The Tour de France and National Identity
- 8. 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 côté du Tour: Ambushing the Tour for Political and Social Causes
- Chronology of the Tour 1902-2003
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.