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The stadium century : Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France /

The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public hea...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lewis, Robert W. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • 1, A 'grand stade' for Paris : stadia, urban planning and the 1924 Olympics
  • 2, 'A civic tool of modern times' : politics, mass society and the stadium
  • 3. Sportsmen or savages? Stadium sport and its spectators, 1900-60
  • 4. Stadium travels : spectatorship, territorial identity and global connections, 1900-60
  • 5. Postwar modernisation and the stadium, 1945-98
  • Conclusion.