Dauncey, Hugh.
The Tour de France, 1903-2003 : A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Sport in the Global Society Ser. . - Sport in the Global Society Ser. .
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.
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 political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.
9780203502419
Nationalism and sports - France - History.
Electronic books.
GV1049.2.T68 -- T68 2003eb
796.6/2/0944
The Tour de France, 1903-2003 : A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Sport in the Global Society Ser. . - Sport in the Global Society Ser. .
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.
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 political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.
9780203502419
Nationalism and sports - France - History.
Electronic books.
GV1049.2.T68 -- T68 2003eb
796.6/2/0944