French rugby football : a cultural history / Philip Dine.
As France''s oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own im...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2001.
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| Series: | Berg French studies.
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| Summary: | As France''s oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction of masculine, class-based regional and national identities, France''s tradition of ''Champagne rugby'' continues to be as subject to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game''s precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not infrequently cau. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847880321 1847880320 1282907778 9781282907775 9786612907777 6612907770 |
| ISSN: | 1354-3636. |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |