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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: brief history of motion
    sub title: from the wheel, to the car, to what comes next
  name:
    name part: Standage, Tom
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology-personal transportation-and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia. Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel--a device that didn't catch on until a couple thousand years after its invention--Standage zips through the eras of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how each successive mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in, from the geography of our cities to our experience of time to our notions of gender. Then, delving into the history of the automobile's development, Standage explores the social resistance to cars and the upheaval that their widespread adoption required. Cars changed how the world was administered, laid out, and policed, how it looked, sounded, and smelled--and not always in the ways we might have preferred. Today--after the explosive growth of ride-sharing and years of breathless predictions about autonomous vehicles--the social transformations spurred by coronavirus and overshadowed by climate change create a unique opportunity to critically reexamine our relationship to the car. With A Brief History of Motion, Standage overturns myths, considers roads not taken, and invites us to look at our past with fresh eyes so we can create the future we want to see. -- Provided by publisher.
  abstract: A look at the history of human transportation, from the invention of the wheel through the era of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. -- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Wheels in the ancient world -- Your carriage awaits -- Under one's own steam -- The rubber hits the road -- You are what you drive -- Who owns the streets? -- The road to suburbia -- Car culture -- The fall and rise of the electric car -- All hail the ride -- From horseless to driverless -- The road ahead.
  note: Tom Standage.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Vehicles
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Motion
  subject:
    topic: Transportation
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Motion
  subject:
    topic: Transportation
  subject:
    topic: Vehicles
  classification: HE151 .S727 2021
  classification: 388.09
  identifier: 9781635573619
  identifier: 1635573610
  identifier: 9781526608321
  identifier: 1526608324
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200820
    record change date: 20211213112953.0
    record identifier: in00004401480
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng