Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Sport, Bicycling, and Globalization in the Print Era: Convergences and Divergences; Chapter 2. The Tour, Greatest of the Turn-of-the- Century Bicycle Races; Chapter 3. The Tour and Television: A Love- Hate Story; Chapter 4. The French School of Cycling; Chapter 5. The Tour in the Provinces: Sport and Small Cities in the Global Age; Chapter 6. The Tour's Globalizing Agenda in the Television Age; Chapter 7. The Global Tour and Its Stars; Afterword: Doping and the Tour on the World Stage; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Eric Reed examines the Tour de France's development as well as the event's global athletic, cultural, and commercial influences. He explores the behind-the-scenes growth of the Tour, while simultaneously chronicling France's role as a dynamic force in the global arena
