Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Reihe: Transport and Society
History, Political Economy and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Reihe: Transport and Society
ISBN: 978-1-138-54726-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Contents: Preface; For a geography of cycling. Part 1 Spaces of Cycling: G-COT: the geographical construction of technology; The Aha! myth: geographically embedded innovation in the Canadian cycle industry 1868-1900; Popeism and Fordism: examining the roots of mass production; Hypermobile global production networks: links of the Canadian cycle industry with China and Taiwan (co-authored with Weidong Liu and Boyang Gao). Part 2 Places of Cycling: Associations, modernity and club citizenship in a Victorian highwheel bicycle club; Men, women and the bicycle in the late nineteenth century (co-authored with Phillip Gordon Mackintosh); 'Thirty thousand wheelmen who never smile': national identity and the rise of the Canadian Wheelman's Association; Performing the bicycle trade show (co-authored with Michael Andreae and Jinn-yuh Hsu); Neoliberal mobility and its discontents: working tricycles in China's cities; Right to the road. Bibliography; Index.