Steven E. Alford, Suzanne Ferriss

An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles

Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528818
• ISBN-10: 1498528813
• Artikelnr.: 55878197

Autorenporträt

By Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1
"It Could Have Been Otherwise": Bicycles and Motorcycles Chapter 2
Roads: Mobility, Bicycles, Motorcycles Chapter 3
Rubber and Steel: The "Raw" Materials Chapter 4
Textiles: Machines, Fabrics, Fabrication Chapter 5
The Paradoxes of Class and Gender among Bicyclists and Motorcyclists Chapter 6
The Embodied Cyclist and Freedom Conclusion