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The experience of suburban modernity : How private transport changed interwar London /
This title explores how the adoption of new forms of private transport transformed inter-war suburban London. It shows how London's suburban middle classes used their newly found disposable income to enjoy driving, motorcycling and flying. It demonstrates that these new practices were welcomed...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Law, Michael John, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The experience of suburban modernity : |b How private transport changed interwar London / |c Michael John Law. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Manchester : |b Manchester University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2017 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; The experience of suburban modernity; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; General editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Introduction; 1 Driving on the Kingston Bypass; Part II Technologies; 2 The car indispensable; 3 'In the joyous rush'- Bicycles and motorcycles; 4 Suburban airmindedness; Part III Roads; 5 New mobilities in construction; 6 Negotiating modernity -- Beautification and contestation; Part IV Journeys; 7 Pleasure and peril at the suburban roadhouse; 8 Modern motoring and the enclosed body; 9 Accidents and suburban modernity. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 10 Everyday driving -- Mobile consumerism and commutingPart V Conclusion; 11 Modern marvels; Appendix: Car adoption rate and number of cars in Greater London for 1938; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This title explores how the adoption of new forms of private transport transformed inter-war suburban London. It shows how London's suburban middle classes used their newly found disposable income to enjoy driving, motorcycling and flying. It demonstrates that these new practices were welcomed by many, but met resistance to change from those who were dismayed by the accidents that resulted from increased mobility and the aesthetic and cultural changes that were the consequence of Americanization and suburban development. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Suburbs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01136941 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Suburban life. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01136930 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Social conditions. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Manners and customs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Industries |x Transportation. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Transports urbains |z Angleterre |z Londres |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vie de la banlieue |z Angleterre |z Londres |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Banlieues |z Angleterre |z Londres |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Suburban life |z England |z London |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Suburbs |z England |z London |x History |y 20th century. | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a London (England) |x Social conditions |y 20th century. | |
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