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Author Dine, Philip

Title French rugby football : a cultural history / Philip Dine
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : map
Series Berg French studies, 1354-3636
Berg French studies.
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
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Subject Rugby Union football -- France -- History
Rugby Union football -- Social aspects -- France
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Rugby.
Rugby Union football.
Rugby (sport)
Sportgeschiedenis.
Rugby.
France.
Rugby
Frankreich
Frankrijk.
France.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847880321
1847880320
1282907778
9781282907775
9786612907777
6612907770