An alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture / Suzanne Ferriss and Steven Alford.
2016
TL400 .F47 2016
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Title
An alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture / Suzanne Ferriss and Steven Alford.
ISBN
9781498528795 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781498528818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781498528801 (e-book)
9781498528818 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781498528801 (e-book)
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
TL400 .F47 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/32
Note
"This book offers an account of two-wheeled vehicle development that challenges the common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle. It examines the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects and focuses on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, which in turn shaped the vehicles' appearance, function, and adoption by riders"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Alford, Steven E., 1950- author.
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Table of Contents
Machines
"It could have been otherwise" : bicycles and motorcycles
Materials
Roads : mobility, bicycles, motorcycles
Rubber and steel : the "raw" materials
Textiles : machines, fabrics, fabrication
Machine and rider
The paradoxes of class and gender among bicyclists and motorcyclists
The embodied cyclist and freedom
Conclusion.
"It could have been otherwise" : bicycles and motorcycles
Materials
Roads : mobility, bicycles, motorcycles
Rubber and steel : the "raw" materials
Textiles : machines, fabrics, fabrication
Machine and rider
The paradoxes of class and gender among bicyclists and motorcyclists
The embodied cyclist and freedom
Conclusion.