The Tour de France
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Christopher S. Thompson.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Bicycle racing -- Social aspects -- France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: La grande boucle : cycling, progress, and modernity in twentieth-century France; title: Itineraries, narratives, and identities in twentieth-century France; title: The giants de la route : gender and heroism in twentieth-century France; title: L'auto's ouvriers de la pedale : work, class, and the Tour de France, 1903/1939; title: The forats de la route : exploits, exploitation, and the politics of athletic excess, 1903/1939; title: At what price heroism? : work, sport, and drugs in postwar France.