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The stadium century: Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France

Posted By: roxul
Date: 10 Sep 2022 08:42:59
The stadium century: Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France

Robert W. Lewis, "The stadium century: Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France "
English | ISBN: 1526106248 | 2016 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public health and urban development and proved to be a key space for mobilising the urban crowd for political rallies and spectator sporting events alike. After 1945, the transformed French stadium constituted part of the process of postwar modernisation but also was increasingly connected to global transformations to the spaces and practices of sport. Drawing from a wide range of sources,
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