| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 290 pages). |
| Series |
Contemporary French and Francophone cultures ; 23 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 23.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Note |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Subject |
Cycling -- France -- History.
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Cycling -- Social aspects -- France.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Cycling.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Society and culture: general.
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Cultural studies.
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Cycling. (OCoLC)fst00885857
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Cycling -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00885887
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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Radfahren (DE-588)4048155-4
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France (DE-588)4018145-5
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1846318351 9781846318351 |
| ISBN |
1846317851 (electronic bk.) |
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9781846317859 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781386590 |
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1781386595 |
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1846318351 |
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9781846318351 |
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