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Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9781498528801 (e-book)

ISBN 9781498528795 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9781498528818 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Print version: Ferriss, Suzanne. Alternative history of bicycles and motorcycles : two-wheeled transportation and material culture. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016] ISBN 9781498528795

"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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(MiAaPQ)EBC4525001

(OCoLC)944014429