Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
L'automobile de France
Author: Automobile Regulations of France and Other Countries
Author: Hanson Cleveland CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Tour de France
Author: Christopher S. ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520247604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate tabula rasa into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and self-interest."—Robert A. Nye, author of Crime, Madness, & Politics in Modern France and Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France "A true gem of a book. A terrific scholar and an engaging writer."—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist and Empty Meeting Grounds "A major new interpretation of France's most famous sporting event. For the first time the Tour de France has been fully and carefully placed within the wider context of French history."—Richard Holt, author of Sport and Society in Modern France and Sport and the British "Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race—its history, its participants and its meaning—firmly in its shifting national and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that deserves to find a broad general readership."—Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Book of Sports Cars - (France and Germany)
Author: Charles Lam MarkmannPublisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 8896365457
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
“... This is a book for which lovers of the automobile have waited a long time: the most comprehensive text-and-picture history of the dual-purpose car since it came to life more than sixty years ago. As the authors of The Book of Sports Cars point out, “in the beginning they were all sports cars.” The automobile began its active life, whatever the intentions of its creators, as a new instrument of sport. Because the increasing demands of this sport imposed an ever-growing burden of technical development, the sports car and its achievements have never stopped forwarding the improvement of the everyday automobile. Here at last, evolved from years of painstaking research, is a record of what the world’s motorists owe to the dreams and the daring of the men and women of motor sport. In arranging the history of the outstanding marques by countries of origin, the authors have made it plain how first one nation, then another took the lead in developing the automobile as a sporting instrument and hence inevitably as a thing of greater common use and benefit. First Germany led the world, then France, then Great Britain and Italy and the United States. The Book of Sports Cars is a magnificent tribute to the glorious past and the exciting present, a fascinating record of the history that points to the challenging future. A book to be read for pleasure and profit, it will be an invaluable addition to the library of every enthusiast of motoring history...” (1959) - BRIGGS CUNNINGHAM
A Vehicle for Change
Author: Éamon Ó CofaighPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802070672
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically ‘consumed’, to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity, the automobile conditioned the very texture of modern life, and the particularly car-centred society of contemporary France is an especially apt locus for examination. The ubiquity of the automobile across all social strata provides us with a defined lens through which to examine the evolution of French society in the modern and post-modern eras. Taking the Second World War as a pivotal moment in recent French history, this book demonstrates how the automobile was both consumed and fetishized in distinct ways before and after this conflict. The ways in which society evolved from the pre- to the post-war period allow us to view French culture through the prism of the automobile as it embodied technological and social progress in twentieth-century France. The present volume seeks to explore and interrogate the processes of representation and mediation inherent in the evolving patterns of automobile consumption, and their subsequent impacts on local and national identity, framed by a detailed case study centred on France from the late-nineteenth century to the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina
Author: Stéphanie PonsavadyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319945599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history of conquest, colonialism, and exploitation in Southeast Asia? Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina addresses the contradictions of the “progress” of French colonialism and their consequences through the lens of the automobile. Stéphanie Ponsavady examines the development of transportation systems in French Indochina at the turn of the twentieth century, analyzing archival material and French and Vietnamese literature to critically assess French colonialism.
Sport
Author: C. M. van StockumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
L'Industrie Automobile en France 1990
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Voiture Minimum
Author: Antonio AmadoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262015366
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house “a machine for living,” was fascinated—even obsessed—by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: “If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision,” he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his “white phase” of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for “a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality,” the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.
The Little French Car in Paris
Author: Stan CherenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780998176635
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The tales of our little French car are set in France and England in the 1980's.Ms. Deuzy is a 1985 "Charleston" model 2CV manufactured at the Citroën factory in Levallois outside of Paris. We fell in love with her on our travels in 2012 and brought her back from Belgium to live with us in North Carolina.Ms. Deuzy is a real character on four wheels who talks to Luc and her animal and automobile friends. So, in these stories, we will give her the ample opportunity to meet exciting and fun folks and go to exciting places.Her constant companion is Luc, an 18 year old student at the Sorbonne inParis. He spends the summers on his family farm outside of Aix.We write these stories to share the incredible history of these 2CVs with thecollectors who grew up with them and with their children and friends.We invite you to share your stories of your experiences with your favorite 2CVs and to tell us where you would like us to take our Ms. Deuzy in the future.