Title First taste of freedom : a cultural history of bicycle marketing in the United States / Robert J. Turpin.

Publication Info.	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
	©2018

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages).
	text file
Series	Sports and entertainment
	Sports and entertainment.
Summary	"First Taste of Freedom" is a work of American cultural history focused on the bicycle market in the United States. A primary goal of the research was also to understand how the bicycle can be seen so differently in the US as opposed to other countries"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Conceptions of bicycles -- Cycling's rise and American manhood -- Automobiles and a world at war -- Cooperation and confusion -- The child consumer -- The postwar slump -- The safety of cycling -- Surviving the Great Depression -- Bicycles in the age of affluence -- High-risers and multi-geared redeemers -- Consumers as derailleurs.
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Subject	Cycling -- United States -- History.
	Cycling.
	United States.
	History.
	Cycling -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
	Cycling -- Economic aspects.
	Bicycle industry -- United States -- History.
	Bicycle industry.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Turpin, Robert J. First taste of freedom. First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018 9780815635734 (DLC) 2018012455
ISBN	9780815654391 (electronic book)
	0815654391 (electronic book)
	9780815635734 (hardcover alkaline paper)