The Tour de France a cultural history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Thompson, Christopher S., 1959-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • La grande boucle : cycling, progress, and modernity
  • Itineraries, narratives, and identities
  • The géants de la route : gender and heroism
  • L'auto's ouvriers de la pédale : work, class, and the Tour de France, 1903-1939
  • The forçats de la route : exploits, exploitation, and the politics of athletic excess, 1903-1939
  • What price heroism? work, sport, and drugs in postwar France.