Law The experience of suburban modernity

How private transport changed interwar London
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84779-943-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Popular Culture

Looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years

Autoren/Hrsg.

Law, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Automobilindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction
1. Driving on the Kingston Bypass
Part II: Technologies
2. The car indispensable
3. ‘In the joyous rush’– Bicycles and motorcycles
4. Suburban air-mindedness
Part III: Roads
5. New mobilities in construction
6. Negotiating modernity – Beautification and contestation
Part IV: Journeys
7. Pleasure and peril at the suburban roadhouse
8. Modern motoring and the enclosed body
9. Accidents and suburban modernity
10. Everyday driving – Mobile consumerism and commuting
Part V: Conclusion
11. Modern Marvels
Appendix: Car adoption rate and number of cars in Greater London for 1938
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Law Michael:
Michael John Law is a Research Fellow at the University of WestminsterMichael John Law is a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster