| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Sport in the global society
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Sport in the global society.
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| Note |
"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. |
| Contents |
Tour de France, a pre-modern contest in a post-modern context / Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare -- Changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage : an interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc / Dominique Marchetti -- Tour de France and cycling's belle epoque / Philippe Gaboriau -- Tour in the inter-war years : political ideology, athletic excess, and industrial modernity / Christopher Thompson -- Economics of the Tour, 1930-2003 / Eric Reed -- 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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tour de France (Bicycle race) -- History.
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Tour de France (Bicycle race) |
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History. |
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Bicycle racing -- Social aspects -- France -- History.
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Bicycle racing -- Social aspects. |
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France. |
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Bicycle racing. |
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Nationalism and sports -- France -- History.
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Nationalism and sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Dauncey, Hugh, 1961-
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Hare, Geoff, 1945-
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| Added Title |
International journal of the history of sport.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tour de France, 1903-2003. London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2003 0714653624 0714682977 (DLC) 2003011128 (OCoLC)52257662 |
| ISBN |
0203502418 (electronic book) |
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9780203502419 (electronic book) |
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0714682977 (Paper) |
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0714653624 |
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9780714653624 |
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0714653624 |
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9780714682976 |
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0714682977 |
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