The Tour de France, 1903-2003 A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values |
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| Editor:
| Dauncey, Hugh
Hare, Geoff |
| Series title: | Sport in the Global Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7146-5362-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2003 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $240.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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...
More DescriptionThis 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.