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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528818
• ISBN-10: 1498528813
• Artikelnr.: 55878197

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Ferriss is professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. Steven E. Alford is professor of English at Nova Southeastern University.

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