“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...

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Main Author: Turpin, Robert J
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2013
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Online Access:https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/13

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