An alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture / Suzanne Ferriss and Steven Alford.

By: Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962- [author.]Contributor(s): Alford, Steven E, 1950- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781498528801 (e-book)Subject(s): Bicycles -- History | Bicycles -- Materials | Cycling -- Social aspects | Motorcycles -- History | Motorcycles -- Materials | Motorcycling -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture.DDC classification: 303.48/32 LOC classification: TL400 | .F47 2016Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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