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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool Univ. Press,
2012.
©2012 |
| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
23. |
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| Summary: | 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 presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late nineteenth century. Based on a very wide range of primary and secondary sources, the volume aims to present in clear language an explanation of the varied significance of cycling in France over the last hundred years. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1846317851 9781846317859 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |