Invisible Bicycle : Parallel Histories and Different Timelines.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations, Graphs and Tables -- Note on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Historical Production of the Invisible and Visible Bicycles -- Part 1 Discourses and Materialities of the Bicycle -- Chapter 2 Rethinking Bicycle Histories -- Chapter 3 Entrenched Habit or Fringe Mode: Comparing National Bicycle Policies, Cultures and Histories -- Part 2 Political and Economic Shaping of the Bicycle -- Chapter 4 Waves of Cycling: Policies of Cycling, Mobility, and Urban Planning in Stockholm since 1970 -- Chapter 5 Making the Bicycle Dutch: The Development of the Bicycle Industry in the Netherlands, 1860-1940 -- Part 3 Bicycle in the Practices -- Chapter 6 Betting on the Wheel: The Bicycle and Japan's Post-War Recovery -- Chapter 7 Modernizing the Bicycle: The International Human-Powered Vehicle Movement and the "Bicycle Renaissance" since the 1970s -- Chapter 8 History, Tweed and the Invisible Bicycle -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Invisible Bicycle revisits and questions the existing timelines of bicycle history to create a more nuanced understanding of why and how the popularity of the bicycle and cycling has changed over time and varies in different locations.

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