“Our Best Bet is the Boy”: A Cultural History of Bicycle Marketing and Consumption in the United States, 1880-1960
This dissertation will focus on how the bicycle industry dealt with a period of dwindling popularity for their product how the bicycle found redemption—as a child’s toy. The central question that will serve as the driving force of this dissertation is: Why did Americans lose interest in cycling and...
Main Author: | Turpin, Robert J |
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Format: | Others |
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UKnowledge
2013
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Online Access: | https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/13 |
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