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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.