French cycling: a social and cultural history

Acknowledgements

1. French Cycling: Issues and Themes

2. The Early Years: Cycling in Search of Identity, 1869-1891

3. Towards Sporting Modernity: Sport as the Driver of Cycling, 1891-1902

4. The Belle Epoque and the First World War: Industry, Sport, Utility and Leisure, 1903-1918

5. Cycling between the Wars: Sport, Recreation, Ideology, 1919-1939

6. From Defeat to the New France: Sport and Society, Cycling and Everyday Life, 1940-1959

7. Cycling's Glory Years and their Mediatization, 1960-1980

8. Cycling in Transformation: Industry, Recreation, Sport, 1980-2000

9. French Cycling in Quest of a New Identity, 2000-2011

10. A Sense of Cycling in France

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