Sport and physical culture in occupied France : authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life /: authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Keith Rathbone.
• Authors: Rathbone, Keith
• Editors: Cross, Máire
• Contents: Introduction; 1 The interwar battle between amateurism and professionalism: the use of physical education and sports by the French left and right; 2 Building the world they wanted: bureaucrats, teachers and athletic fields in Vichy social imaginary; 3 Playground politics, childhood disobedience and Vichy's national revolution; 4 Why rugby and not soccer: Vichy anti-professionalism and the sporting environment of wartime France; 5 The resilience of community: agency and autonomy in wartime sporting associations; 6 French sporting associations and the creation of the myth of résistancialisme; Conclusion; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 796.07094409044; Physical education and training -- France -- History -- 20th century; Sports -- France -- History -- 20th century; France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526153272; 9781526153296
• Related ISBNs: 9781526153289
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