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This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.
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Structures, Meanings, and Values....
7 Mar 2010
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Edited by Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare, this this book features sections by a dozen or so contributors, many of whom seem to be good researchers but probably not real fans of the Tour de France. Dauncey's article, "French Cycling Heroes of the Tour de France: Winners and Losers," in the Volume 20, Issue 3 of the "International Journal of the History of Sport" (2003), is a dry but credible telling of the Tour's place in the recent history of France, even though it contains several factual errors that could have been avoided simply by consulting a list of race winners. My best guess is that most of the other contributors to this book were also featured in that issue, since it has a very similar feel to it.
Not as good as Thompson's "Tour de France," but still worth it if you're interested in the sociological aspects of the great race.
Not as good as Thompson's "Tour de France," but still worth it if you're interested in the sociological aspects of the great race.
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