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100	1		_aSmethurst, Paul _960873
245	1	0	_aThe bicycle : _btowards a global history / _cPaul Smethurst
260			_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire , _aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _cc2015.
300			_axiii, 194 p. : _bill ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 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. "--
650		0	_aBicycles _xHistory _960874
650		0	_aBicycles _xSocial aspects _960875
650		0	_aCycling _xSocial aspects _960876
650		0	_aCycling _vCross-cultural studies _960877
650		7	_aHISTORY / General _942557
650		7	_aHISTORY / World _952344
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History _924462
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