Author: Robert Turpin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654391
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a "car" culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.
First Taste of Freedom
Author: Robert Turpin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654391
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a "car" culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654391
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a "car" culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.
First Taste of Freedom
Author: Robert Turpin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815635918
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a “car” culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815635918
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a “car” culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.
A Little Taste of Freedom
Author: Emilye Crosby
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787681X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787681X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.
A Taste of Freedom
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080279467X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt, in defiance of British law.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080279467X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt, in defiance of British law.
Freedom
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Last Taste of Freedom
Author: Lisa Phillips
Publisher: Lisa Phillips
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fight is coming home. For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn't as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father's treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world. Zander O'Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture. Determined to bring her father down, Nora may be the key to the question at the core of Zander's existence. But when a man thought dead resurfaces, the threat becomes far more dangerous than any of them expected. Unless they survive, this will be their Last Taste of Freedom. Book 1 in the Last Chance County spin-off series featuring Zander and his team of protection specialists. **Christian romantic suspense** Book 1 Last Taste of Freedom Book 2 Last Hour Till Sunrise Book 3 Last One Still Standing Book 4 Last Man To Survive Book 5 Last Line Of Defense
Publisher: Lisa Phillips
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fight is coming home. For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn't as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father's treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world. Zander O'Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture. Determined to bring her father down, Nora may be the key to the question at the core of Zander's existence. But when a man thought dead resurfaces, the threat becomes far more dangerous than any of them expected. Unless they survive, this will be their Last Taste of Freedom. Book 1 in the Last Chance County spin-off series featuring Zander and his team of protection specialists. **Christian romantic suspense** Book 1 Last Taste of Freedom Book 2 Last Hour Till Sunrise Book 3 Last One Still Standing Book 4 Last Man To Survive Book 5 Last Line Of Defense
A Taste of Freedom
Author: Ming-Min Peng
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910736562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Peng Ming-min was imprisoned by the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan during the White Terror era for subversion. While he was later under house arrest he evaded his minders and fled to the US, where he led the fight for democracy in his homeland. He returned to stand as a candidate in the first democratic presidential elections in 1996.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910736562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Peng Ming-min was imprisoned by the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan during the White Terror era for subversion. While he was later under house arrest he evaded his minders and fled to the US, where he led the fight for democracy in his homeland. He returned to stand as a candidate in the first democratic presidential elections in 1996.
A Taste of Freedom
Author: Carolyn Quick Tillery
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523217
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The sequel to the bestselling "The African-American Heritage Cookbook" interweaves fascinating history with fabulous menus. Includes recipes for the elegant Southern foods for which the Virginia coast is famous. 50 photos & illustrations.
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523217
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The sequel to the bestselling "The African-American Heritage Cookbook" interweaves fascinating history with fabulous menus. Includes recipes for the elegant Southern foods for which the Virginia coast is famous. 50 photos & illustrations.
A Taste of Freedom
Author: Liz Ryan
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444780921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
When Keeley and Mary, best friends from Dublin, go off to pick grapes in France in 1977, both their lives change profoundly. Provence is utterly different from boring, repressive Ireland. Mary, who is taking a break before she settles down to marriage with her uninspiring but steady boyfriend Cathal, is the one who manages to become pregnant, and has to go home. Keeley, who only went along to keep Mary company, is the one who stays in France, making a new life for herself with a charming French hairdresser. As the years pass, they both dream of what might have been - until, in a very different Ireland, Mary gets her second chance at freedom. 'Liz Ryan understands not only a woman's heart but a woman's mind' Terry Keane Sunday Times
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444780921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
When Keeley and Mary, best friends from Dublin, go off to pick grapes in France in 1977, both their lives change profoundly. Provence is utterly different from boring, repressive Ireland. Mary, who is taking a break before she settles down to marriage with her uninspiring but steady boyfriend Cathal, is the one who manages to become pregnant, and has to go home. Keeley, who only went along to keep Mary company, is the one who stays in France, making a new life for herself with a charming French hairdresser. As the years pass, they both dream of what might have been - until, in a very different Ireland, Mary gets her second chance at freedom. 'Liz Ryan understands not only a woman's heart but a woman's mind' Terry Keane Sunday Times
Tasting Freedom
Author: Daniel R. Biddle
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 159213467X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 159213467X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.