Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Tour de France, a pre-modern contest in a post-modern context / Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare -- The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage : an interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc / Dominique Marchetti -- The Tour de France and cycling's belle epoque / Philippe Gaboriau -- The Tour in the inter-war years : political ideology, athletic excess, and industrial modernity / Christopher Thompson -- The economics of the Tour, 1930-2003 / Eric Reed -- The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production / Fabien Wille -- Beating the bounds : the Tour de France and national identity / Christophe Campos -- French cycling heroes of the Tour : winners and losers / Hugh Dauncey -- Se faire naturaliser cycliste : the Tour and its non-French competitors / John Marks -- The Tour de France and the doping issue / Patrick Mignon -- A côté du Tour : ambushing the Tour for political and social causes / Jean-François Polo -- Chronology of the tour 1902-2003…”

“…Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Coalitions of the willing -- The scarcity of charm -- The tender war…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Profesor Longhair: Go to the mardi gras ; In the night ; Hey little girl ; Walk your blues away ; Willie mae ; Professor Longhair blues ; Misery ; Looka, no hair ; Cuttin'out ; Baby, let me hold your hand -- Junior Parker: Feelin'good ; Mystery train ; Sittin'at the bar ; Sittin'at the window ; Sittin', drinkin' and thinkin ; Dirty friend blues ; Backtracking ; I wanna ramble ; There better be no feet ; Fussin'and fightin'blues…”

“…They argue that these empires were interconnected from the very outset in their production and sharing of knowledge as well as in their economic activities. Willingly or unwillingly, African slaves, Amerindians, converso traders, smugglers, missionaries, diplomats, settlers, soldiers, and pirates crossed geographical, linguistic, and political boundaries and cocreated not only local but also imperial histories. …”

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