French cycling : a social and cultural history / Hugh Dauncy.
French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, the volume presen...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool Univ. Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. French cycling: issues and themes
- 2. The early years: cycling in search of identity, 1869-1891
- 3. Towards sporting modernity: sport as the driver of cycling, 1891-1902
- 4. The Belle Epoque and the First World War: industry, sport, utility and leisure, 1903-1918
- 5. Cycling between the wars: sport, recreation, ideology, 1919-1939
- 6. From defeat to the new France: sport and society, cycling and everyday life, 1940-1959
- 7. Cycling's glory years and their mediatization, 1960-1980
- 8. Cycling in transformation: industry, recreation, sport, 1980-2000
- 9. French cycling in quest of a new identity, 2000-2011
- 10. A sense of cycling in France
- Bibliography
- Index.