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The Tour de France, 1903-2003 [electronic resource]

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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.

Title The Tour de France, 1903-2003 [electronic resource] : a century of sporting structures, meanings, and values / editors, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare.
Publisher London
Portland, OR : F. Cass
Creation Date 2003
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"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Series Editor's Foreword
1 The Tour de France: A Pre-Modern Contest in a Post-Modern Context
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
7 Beating the Bounds: The Tour de France and National Identity8 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 cote du Tour: Ambushing the Tour for Political and Social Causes
Chronology of the Tour 1902–2003
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Series Sport in the global society
Extent 1 online resource (326 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708323105171
MARC RECORDS
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