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The Tour de France : a cultural history
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- Creator
- Christopher S. Thompson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- x, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520247604, 0520247604
- OCLC
- ocm61285606
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.
- 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