Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : map |
Series |
Berg French studies, 1354-3636 |
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Berg French studies.
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Contents |
pt. 1. The rise of le rugby-panache, 1880-1914 -- pt. 2. Rugby goes to war, 1914-1945 -- pt. 3. Uncorking le rugby-champagne, 1945-1968 -- pt. 4. Towards a global game, 1968-2000 |
Summary |
As France''s oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction of masculine, class-based regional and national identities, France''s tradition of ''Champagne rugby'' continues to be as subject to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game''s precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not infrequently cau |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Rugby Union football -- France -- History
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Rugby Union football -- Social aspects -- France
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Rugby.
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Rugby Union football.
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Rugby (sport)
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Sportgeschiedenis.
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Rugby.
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France.
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Rugby
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Frankreich
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Frankrijk.
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France.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781847880321 |
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1847880320 |
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1282907778 |
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9781282907775 |
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9786612907777 |
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6612907770 |
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