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retracing the culture of play and games in the City of Light (1854-2024)
1 online resource (x, 421 pages) : illustrations.
"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.)"--
Introduction : looking back, moving forward : the history and culture of sport in Paris / Maxence Leconte -- Reinventing le sport : Eugène Chapus, identity and the Parisian elite / Corry Cropper, Pratima Prasad -- Wrestling at the Fête Foraine : force and farce at the fair (1850-1950) / David L. Chapman -- Bringing Marathon to Paris : the press and the promotion of endurance running in the Belle Epoque / Martin Hurcombe -- Paris and the Olympic Games : a comparative history / Pierre-Olaf Schut -- Public participation and amateur exclusivity : revisiting the depiction of the 1900 Paris Games in the illustrated sports press / Rachel Ozerkevich -- Paris and la petite balle jaune : two centuries of Jeu de Paume, royal tennis and lawn tennis in the City of Light / Roxanna Curto -- (Re)mapping sports literature in Paris during the interwar period / Maxence Leconte, Thomas Bauer -- The Fémina-Sport Club in interwar Paris : all sports for all women / Florys Castan-Vicente -- Carpentier vs Siki : the Black boxer's pyrrhic victory in Paris, capital of the French colonial republic / Stéphane Hadjeras -- 'Thanks to the Palais des Sports, Paris will be the sports capital of Europe' : L'Auto, Jeff Dickson, and the Vél d'Hiv (1909-1959) / Sébastien Moreau, Sylvain Ville -- The 'Ronde Infernale' on the Rue Nélaton : the Six Jours de Paris (1913-1958) / Robert W. Lewis -- Franco-antipodean sports contacts : a transnational history of sport / Keith Rathbone -- The cure d'exercice : understanding the therapeutic value of sport and physical exercise in the Paris region, c. 1880-1950 / Joan Tumblety -- The long road of professional football in Paris, from the Belle Époque to the Bosman ruling / Paul Dietschy -- France and US : Paris as a land of welcome, adoption, and opportunity for 'American' basketball, from the YMCA to the NBA / Lindsay S. Krasnoff, Christelle Bertho.
Includes bibliographical references and index.