Invisible bicycle : parallel histories and different timelines / edited by Tiina Mannisto-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mannisto-Funk, Tiina, editor.

Myllyntaus, Timo, editor.

Series:

Technology and change in history ; 1385-920x Volume 15.

Technology and change in history ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cycling--History.

Cycling.

Cycling--Social aspects.

Cycling--Economic aspects.

Cycling--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the 1950s and 1960s and the renaissance beginning in the 1970s by bringing forth the large national and local variations, varying uses and images of the bicycle, and different bicycle cultures as well as their historical background and motivations. To understand the role, possibilities and challenges of the bicycle today, it is necessary to know the history that has formed them. Therefore The Invisible Bicycle is recommended also to present-day practitioners and planners of bicycle mobility. Contributors are: Peter Cox, Martin Emanuel, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus, Nicholas Oddy, Harry Oosterhuis, William Steele, Manuel Stoffers, Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai, Frank Veraart.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Preface / Timo Myllyntaus

Illustrations, Graphs and Tables

Note on Contributors

Introduction: The Historical Production of the Invisible and Visible Bicycles / Tiina Männistö-Funk

Discourses and Materialities of the Bicycle

Rethinking Bicycle Histories / Peter Cox

Entrenched Habit or Fringe Mode: Comparing National Bicycle Policies, Cultures and Histories / Harry Oosterhuis

Political and Economic Shaping of the Bicycle

Waves of Cycling: Policies of Cycling, Mobility, and Urban Planning in Stockholm since 1970 / Martin Emanuel

Making the Bicycle Dutch: The Development of the Bicycle Industry in the Netherlands, 1860–1940 / Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai and Frank Veraart

Bicycle in the Practices

Betting on the Wheel: The Bicycle and Japan’s Post-War Recovery / M. William Steele

Modernizing the Bicycle: The International Human-Powered Vehicle Movement and the “Bicycle Renaissance” since the 1970s / Manuel Stoffers

History, Tweed and the Invisible Bicycle / Nicholas Oddy

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28997-6

OCLC:

1057696995

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289970 DOI