Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France - Couverture rigide

Fincoeur, Bertrand; Frandsen, Kirsten; Thompson, Christopher

 
9782889155712: Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 2889155714 ISBN 13 : 9782889155712
Editeur : Epfl Press, 2023

Synopsis

A book that fills a niche in academic analysis of the Tour de France.

The Tour de France is an event known worldwide by both fans of cycling and the general public as a distinguished and extreme physical challenge. Since the 1990s, however, the Tour has also become notorious as a testing ground for performance enhancement and a proving ground for anti-doping measures. The Tour has long been the focus of books that concentrate on racing, the personalities, the scandals, and gossip. Racing Time, instead, offers a serious study of the event, analyzed within its political, social, cultural, and economic context. Racing Time presents expert analyses of a range of topics and issues which the recent history of the Tour has shown to be of contemporary significance, including several studies that examine issues around doping from a range of perspectives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Thompson is the author of The Tour de France: A Cultural History.

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Éditeur
Epfl Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2889155714
ISBN 13 
9782889155712
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
200
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Personne responsable
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