The Tour de France : a Cultural History.
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the wo...
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| 505 | 0 | |a CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. La Grande Boucle: Cycling, Progress, and Modernity; 2. Itineraries, Narratives, and Identities; 3. The Gants de la Route: Gender and Heroism; 4. L'Auto's Ouvriers de la Pdale:Work, Class, and the Tour de France, 19031939; 5. The Forats de la Route: Exploits, Exploitation, and the Politics of Athletic Excess, 19031939; 6. What Price Heroism? Work, Sport, and Drugsin Postwar France; Epilogue; Appendix: Racers' Occupations; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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