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10%OFFGlen Norcliffe - The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900 - 9780802082053 - V9780802082053
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The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900

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Description for The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900 paperback. An examination how the bicycle as a symbol of modernity and social status fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 249 x 28. Weight in Grams: 602.

This is the story of Canada's encounter with the bicycle in the late nineteenth century, set in the context of the cultural movement known as 'modernity.' Glen Norcliffe covers the bicycle's history from about 1869, when the first bicycle appeared in Canada, until about 1900, a date that marks the end of the era when bicycles were a recognized symbol of modernity and social status; cycling continued into the Edwardian period and beyond, of course, especially in Europe, but by then it had lost its symbolic status and social cachet in Canada.

Norcliffe's aim is to examine how the bicycle ... Read more

Lively and well illustrated, The Ride to Modernity provides a particularly Canadian history of one of the first big-ticket, mass-produced consumer luxuries.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802082053
SKU
V9780802082053
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About Glen Norcliffe
Glen Norcliffe is Professor of Geography, York University.

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