Robert W. Lewis

The stadium century (eBook, ePUB)

Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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,the stadium century links the histories of French urbanism, mass politics and sport through the stadium in an innovative work that will appeal to historians, students of French history and the history of sport, and general readers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526106261
• Artikelnr.: 48795637

Autorenporträt

Robert W. Lewis is Assistant Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 A 'grand stade' for Paris: stadia
urban planning and the 1924 Olympics 2 'A civic tool of modern times': politics
mass society and the stadium 3 Sportsmen or savages? Stadium sport and its spectators
1900-60 4 Stadium travels: spectatorship
territorial identity and global connections
1900-60 5 Postwar modernisation and the stadium
1945-98 Conclusion Index