The Experience of Suburban Modernity (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2014-10-31
Förlag
Manchester University Press
Medarbetare
Richards, Jeffrey (series ed.)
Illustrationer
Tables, black & white|Halftones, black & white|Maps
Dimensioner
236 x 157 x 28 mm
Vikt
522 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780719089190

The Experience of Suburban Modernity

How Private Transport Changed Interwar London

av Michael Law
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-10-31
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The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class suburbanites enjoyed driving at speed on new arterial roads, visiting roadhouses for a transgressive night out, taking five-shilling flights from the local airport, and joining cycling and motorcycle clubs. All this fun came at a price for some in the form of thousands of deaths in road accidents, plane crashes on suburban housing and in the despoiling of the countryside through road development. This book will be welcomed by academics and students working in suburban studies, historical geography and interwar British history and can also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of London. -- .
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Michael John Law is a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster -- .

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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 air-mindedness 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 commuting Part V: Conclusion 11. Modern Marvels Appendix: Car adoption rate and number of cars in Greater London for 1938 Bibliography Index -- .

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