Cycling and the British: A Modern History
Autor Dr. Neil Carteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472572080
ISBN-10: 1472572084
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472572084
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The first serious academic study of the history of cycling, policy and politics in Britain
Notă biografică
Neil Carter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK.
Cuprins
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1 Cycling and the rise of respectable recreation 2 Cycling as Victorian spectacle 3 Cycling, Englishness and the politics of the road 4 Cycling and the people5 The birth of British massed-start racing 6 Women, modernity and cycling 7 Cycling in the age of motoring 8 Cycling, politics and environmentalism9 Cycling in post-industrial Britain 10 Elite cycling and British society Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Recenzii
As a clear and detailed guide, it is an invaluable corrective to a multiplicity of lazy assumptions and popular myths often recirculated in generalist accounts ... This is a work I will return to frequently.
[T]his well-written and engaging monograph will appeal to bicycle historians and enthusiasts as well as sport historians and the general reading public.
This is the definitive work on the social and cultural history of the bicycle. From the Penny-Farthing to Team Sky, Neil Carter tells the story not just of cycling, but also of British society's changing relationship with the bike.
This is by far the best history of cycling in Britian. Carter has read very widely both on cycling as a recreation and as a competitive sport. He sets cycling in a broad context of social class, female emancipation and profound shifts in transport, health and enviromental policy without losing sight of the events, personalities,and the great races - Olympic medals and all - which bring the story alive.
From penny farthings to safeties to mountain bikes and recumbent tricycles, Neil Carter explores how cycling has been making a political statement for 150 years. At first an elite symbol, the cycle now represents the openness and companionship of English society. It is central to the image of Englishness-the slow paced, bucolic, rural idyll.
In terms of national identity and patriotic fervour, it's often the team sports of cricket, football and rugby that capture the imagination. And yet, as Neil Carter shows brilliantly in Cycling and the British: A Modern History, it is the bike that has fascinated and charmed the public consciousness, and in many ways, shaped British history. From the Victorian cycling craze, through touring and cycling clubs, to the British stars of the Tour de France and the Olympics, Carter has meticulously researched across a staggering array of sources to produce the definitive history of cycling. It is a wonderful book that demonstrates how such a run of the mill piece of equipment that we all take for granted, is as important to British history as Stephenson's Rocket or Whittle's jet engine and transformed society in equally radical ways
[T]his well-written and engaging monograph will appeal to bicycle historians and enthusiasts as well as sport historians and the general reading public.
This is the definitive work on the social and cultural history of the bicycle. From the Penny-Farthing to Team Sky, Neil Carter tells the story not just of cycling, but also of British society's changing relationship with the bike.
This is by far the best history of cycling in Britian. Carter has read very widely both on cycling as a recreation and as a competitive sport. He sets cycling in a broad context of social class, female emancipation and profound shifts in transport, health and enviromental policy without losing sight of the events, personalities,and the great races - Olympic medals and all - which bring the story alive.
From penny farthings to safeties to mountain bikes and recumbent tricycles, Neil Carter explores how cycling has been making a political statement for 150 years. At first an elite symbol, the cycle now represents the openness and companionship of English society. It is central to the image of Englishness-the slow paced, bucolic, rural idyll.
In terms of national identity and patriotic fervour, it's often the team sports of cricket, football and rugby that capture the imagination. And yet, as Neil Carter shows brilliantly in Cycling and the British: A Modern History, it is the bike that has fascinated and charmed the public consciousness, and in many ways, shaped British history. From the Victorian cycling craze, through touring and cycling clubs, to the British stars of the Tour de France and the Olympics, Carter has meticulously researched across a staggering array of sources to produce the definitive history of cycling. It is a wonderful book that demonstrates how such a run of the mill piece of equipment that we all take for granted, is as important to British history as Stephenson's Rocket or Whittle's jet engine and transformed society in equally radical ways