The Devil's Wheels : : Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic / / Sasha Disko.
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in Mobility ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Does the Man Make the Motorcycle or the Motorcycle the Man?
- CHAPTER 1 From Pioneers to Global Dominance: The First Forty Years of the German Motorcycle Industry
- CHAPTER 2 Engineering and Advertising a Motorized Future
- CHAPTER 3 Motorcycles and the “Everyman” Exploring the Motorcycling Milieu
- CHAPTER 4 “Is Motorcycling Even Sport?” Strength and the National Body
- CHAPTER 5 Deviant Behaviors Inclusion, Exclusion, and Community
- CHAPTER 6 Motoring Amazons? Women and Motorcycling
- CHAPTER 7 Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage, and Motorization
- Epilogue: The Will to Motor
- Appendix: Tables
- Bibliography
- Index