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02718aam a2200385 i 4500 001 2717BC44CBD611E5B1991DF0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160205010026 008 150226s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001276 020 $a 9781137499509 020 $a 1137499508 020 $a 1137499494 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137499493 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)898911113 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d NYP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TL410 $b .S635 2015 082 00 $a 629.227/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Smethurst, Paul. 245 14 $a The bicycle : $b towards a global history / $c Paul Smethurst. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xiii, 194 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- 1. Invention -- 2. Mobility -- 3. Crossings -- 4. Trends and Trajectories. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index. 520 $a "The modern bicycle as we know it today was developed in England in the 1880s. A decade later, cycling was already a popular spectator sport and a recreational fashion across western society. Women's rights, class mobility and a modern spirit of individualism helped fuel this bicycle boom. In China, on the other hand, the bicycle's ubiquity reflected state-controlled social uniformity. Briefly, it became a symbol of resistance in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s, but crushed by tanks it later turned into a downward marker of class with millions scrapped. In the 21st century, the bicycle is enjoying a global resurgence. It is favoured as a sustainable form of transport, while also reinventing itself as a chic and sportive fashion object, and a generic protest vehicle. With contradictory strands like these, the bicycle's cultural history is a rich subject for cross-cultural study. Beginning with the technical history of the bicycle's invention, and the socio-economic factors that precipitated it, the main focus of this book is the ever-changing cultural significance of the bicycle as an object, and of bicycling as a shifting, but ever popular social practice around the world. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Bicycles $x History. 650 0 $a Bicycles $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Cycling $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Cycling $v Cross-cultural studies. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/493/9781137499493/image/lgcover.9781137499493.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221103011651.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20160205010405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2717BC44CBD611E5B1991DF0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search