The Tour de France: A Cultural History

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University of California Press, 17 jul 2006 - 385 pagina's
"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate tabula rasa into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and self-interest."—Robert A. Nye, author of Crime, Madness, & Politics in Modern France and Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France

"A true gem of a book. A terrific scholar and an engaging writer."—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist and Empty Meeting Grounds

"A major new interpretation of France's most famous sporting event. For the first time the Tour de France has been fully and carefully placed within the wider context of French history."—Richard Holt, author of Sport and Society in Modern France and Sport and the British

"Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race—its history, its participants and its meaning—firmly in its shifting national and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that deserves to find a broad general readership."—Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
 

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Introduction
1
Cycling Progressand Modernity
7
2 Itineraries Narratives and Identities
51
Gender and Heroism
95
Work Classand the Tour de France 19031939
141
Exploits Exploitation and the Politics of Athletic Excess 19031939
180
6 What Price Heroism? Work Sport and Drugsin Postwar France
215
Epilogue
256
Racers Occupations
267
Notes
269
Bibliography
345
Index
363
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Christopher S. Thompson is Associate Professor of History at Ball State University.

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