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Author : Samuel Sidney McClure,J. F. McClure,J. S. Phillips,C. E. Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Cycling
ISBN : HARVARD:HN43PZ
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Sports
ISBN : UOM:39015070320505
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cycling
ISBN : UOM:39015058779185
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Sports
ISBN : UCAL:B3420026
Author : John Calagione,Doris Francis,Daniel Nugent
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791408361
This book explores the interrelations between work and social life. It emphasizes how workers expressive forms and public performances connect with processes of social, cultural, and individual empowerment. Departing from perspectives that emphasize organizational integration, equilibrium, and continuity, the authors present evidence from anthropology, history, and folklore to explore intersection of popular culture and working situations. The authors offer new data in the on-going debate about the separation of work and leisure, and raise questions about the diverse representations of class and the labor process. They identify workers cultural values that emerge within the changing context of production, and that are not merely an outcome of industrial hegemony. Instead, workers representations and articulations of craft mastery, class identity, and gender, reveal transformations of the traditional categories of those who produce and those who appropriate value. The studies of workers lives range from contemporary United States and Mexico to China, India, and Japan.
Author : Duane Swierczynski
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312343787
His money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, getaway driver Lennon is on a mission to find out who is responsible--and to get back his loot. A dirty cop, the Russian and Italian mobs, the mayor's hired gun, and a musician maneuver for position as this novel twists and turns toward its conclusion.
Author : Jesse J. Gant,Nicholas J. Hoffman
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206146
On rails-to-trails bike paths, city streets, and winding country roads, the bicycle seems ubiquitous in the Badger State. Yet there’s a complex and fascinating history behind the popularity of biking in Wisconsin—one that until now has never been told. Meticulously researched through periodicals and newspapers, Wheel Fever traces the story of Wisconsin’s first “bicycling boom,” from the velocipede craze of 1869 through the “wheel fever” of the 1890s. It was during this crucial period that the sport Wisconsinites know and adore first took shape. From the start it has been defined by a rich and often impassioned debate over who should be allowed to ride, where they could ride, and even what they could wear. Many early riders embraced the bicycle as a solution to the age-old problem of how to get from here to there in the quickest and easiest way possible. Yet for every supporter of the “poor man’s horse,” there were others who wanted to keep the rights and privileges of riding to an elite set. Women, the working class, and people of color were often left behind as middle- and upper-class white men benefitted from the “masculine” sport and all-male clubs and racing events began to shape the scene. Even as bikes became more affordable and accessible, a culture defined by inequality helped create bicycling in its own image, and these limitations continue to haunt the sport today. Wheel Fever is about the origins of bicycling in Wisconsin and why those origins still matter, but it is also about our continuing fascination with all things bicycle. From “boneshakers” to high-wheels, standard models to racing bikes, tandems to tricycles, the book is lushly illustrated with never-before-seen images of early cycling, and the people who rode them: bloomer girls, bicycle jockeys, young urbanites, and unionized workers. Laying the foundations for a much-beloved recreation, Wheel Fever challenges us to imagine anew the democratic possibilities that animated cycling’s early debates.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069078115
Author : Connecticut. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : UOM:39015074185185
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Outdoor recreation
ISBN : IND:32000000713125
Author : Eric Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501103926
From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
Author : Evan Friss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226758800
As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century. --Publisher's description.
Author : Robert L. McCullough
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780262552493
How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Sports
ISBN : UOM:39015070320554
Author : Poultney Bigelow,James Henry Worman,Ben James Worman,Caspar Whitney,Albert Britt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Sports
ISBN : CHI:41732489
