| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Bicycles -- History.
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Bicycles -- Materials.
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Cycling -- Social aspects.
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Motorcycles -- History.
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Motorcycles -- Materials.
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Motorcycling -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Alford, Steven E., 1950- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ferriss, Suzanne. Alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498528795 |
| ISBN |
9781498528795 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781498528818 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781498528801 (e-book) |
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