(Read ebook) French Rugby Football: A Cultural History
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| #7533227 in Books | Berg Publishers | 2001-07-01 | 2001-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 233.93 x.56 x6.14l,1.08 | File Name: 1859733220 | 288 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent socio-political history of rugby in France.|By Andrew Hallman|This is a well-researched well-written study of the political and social history of French rugby and should be of interest of rugby fans and social scientists. I learned a lot, e.g. how rugby union was linked to the Vichy government in World War 2 and how the lower social classes seized control of the game|||“This admirable book will serve not only rugby fans but a wider academic and general readership immensely well as the authoritative work on its subject.” ―The Times Higher Education Supplement|“This is an impressive book, the impor
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 uph...
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