The stadium century investigates why and how French spectators attended major sporting events in such vast numbers throu. English Pages [] Year The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the develo.
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass hom. Addresses the problems caused by car ownership. This book argues that transport is linked with consumerism and the chall. This, the first volume, begins with a Section on Church and State, the theology and political theory justifying their al.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Western Europe witnessed the emergence of a 'mass' society. This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race,. Stadium sport and its spectators, β60 Stadium travels: spectatorship, territorial identity and global connections, β60 Postwar modernisation and the stadium, β98 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
It aims to showcase innovative short monographs relating to the history of the French, in France and in the world since c. Each volume speaks to a theme in the history of France with broader resonances to other discourses about the past.
Authors demonstrate how the sources and interpretations of modern French history are being opened to historical investigation in new and interesting ways, and how unfamiliar subjects have the capacity to tell us more about the role of France within the European continent. The series is particularly open to interdisciplinary studies that break down the traditional boundaries and conventional disciplinary divisions.
