The Journal of Transport History, March 1st, 2006
David V. Herlihy, Bicycle, Yale University Press, New Haven CT (2004), 468 pp., £20.00. The bicycle has attracted writers to plot its history for as long as pedals have been applied to the machine. The resulting extensive bibliography provides a fascinating insight into the predilections, methodologies and cultural concerns of popular histories over the last 140 years, to the extent that in recent decades it has attracted meta-discourses by the likes of Trevor Pinch and Weibe Bijker. Now another significant volume has been added to the list. David Herlihy's Bicycle is, in concept, very simi...
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