Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
41 results found. Sorted by relevance | date | title .
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Friss, Evan, author.

Title The cycling city : bicycles and urban America in the 1890s / Evan Friss.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
©2015

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  388.3 FRISS    Check Shelf
Description x, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The rise of the cycling city -- The cyclists -- Rules of the road -- Good roads -- The bicycle paths (not) taken -- Riding for recreation and health -- Riding for utility: the commuters -- Riding for reform: wheelwomen -- The crash -- Epilogue.
Subject Cycling -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Bicycle commuting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Urban transportation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Bicycle commuting. (OCoLC)fst00831434
Cycling. (OCoLC)fst00885857
Urban transportation. (OCoLC)fst01162609
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Standard No. 40025287624
ISBN 9780226210919 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
022621091X (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780226211077 (electronic book)
-->
Add a Review