| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Sport in the global society |
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Sport in the global society.
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| Contents |
The Tour de France, a pre-modern contest in a post-modern context / Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare -- The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage : an interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc / Dominique Marchetti -- The Tour de France and cycling's belle epoque / Philippe Gaboriau -- The Tour in the inter-war years : political ideology, athletic excess, and industrial modernity / Christopher Thompson -- The economics of the Tour, 1930-2003 / Eric Reed -- The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production / Fabien Wille -- Beating the bounds : the Tour de France and national identity / Christophe Campos -- French cycling heroes of the Tour : winners and losers / Hugh Dauncey -- Se faire naturaliser cycliste : the Tour and its non-French competitors / John Marks -- The Tour de France and the doping issue / Patrick Mignon -- A côté du Tour : ambushing the Tour for political and social causes / Jean-François Polo -- Chronology of the tour 1902-2003 |
| 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 |
| 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"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Tour de France (Bicycle race) -- History
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Tour de France (Bicycle race) fast |
| Subject |
Bicycle racing -- Social aspects -- France -- History
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Nationalism and sports -- France -- History
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Cycling.
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Bicycle racing -- Social aspects
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Nationalism and sports
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dauncey, Hugh, 1961-
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Hare, Geoff, 1945-
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| LC no. |
2003011128 |
| ISBN |
0203502418 |
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9780203502419 |
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9780714653624 |
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0714653624 |
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9780714682976 |
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0714682977 |
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9786610048120 |
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6610048126 |
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9781135762391 |
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1135762392 |
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9781135762346 |
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1135762341 |
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9781135762384 |
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1135762384 |
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1280048123 |
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9781280048128 |
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