ISBN:
9781803742359
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 421 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Sport, history and culture vol. 14
Series Statement:
Sport, history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/830944361
Keywords:
Geschichte 1854-2024
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Sport
;
Sportveranstaltung
;
Paris
;
Sports / France / Paris / History
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Sports / Social aspects / France / Pari / History
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Paris (France) / Social life and customs
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Paris
;
Sport
;
Sportveranstaltung
;
Geschichte 1854-2024
Abstract:
"This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and constitutes the first comprehensive piece of scholarship exclusively dedicated to the relationship between sport, history, and culture in the City of Light. This collection articulates and emphasizes the sustained presence and impact of sports in Parisian lives for over a century and a half, at the same time as it encourages readers to think about sports as a form of cultural expression able to alter national, regional, and individual identity, in other words, as a form of entertainment able to shift our perception of leisure and spectatorship, an activity able to transform urban spaces and social norms. To this end, Sport in Paris proposes complementary perspectives, by not only addressing multiple sporting disciplines (tennis, football, boxing, etc.) but also stressing interdisciplinary approaches (history of the press, urbanism, health studies, literary geography, etc.)"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
