Invisible Bicycle

Tiina Mannistoe-Funk, Ph.D. (2014) is a historian of technology currently working as a researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She has published on bicycle history in Technology and Culture, Transfers, ICON, Cycle history, Tekniikan Waiheita and edited volumes. Timo Myllyntaus (Ph.D. 1989, LSE, UK) is Professor of Economic and Social History at Turku School of Economics, Finland. He has published extensively on history of technology and environmental history. His edited volumes include Thinking through the Environment (Cambridge 2011).

Preface

 Timo Myllyntaus



List of Illustrations, Graphs and Tables

Note on Contributors



1 Introduction: The Historical Production of the Invisible and Visible Bicycles

 Tiina Männistö-Funk



part 1: Discourses and Materialities of the Bicycle

2 Rethinking Bicycle Histories

 Peter Cox



3 Entrenched Habit or Fringe Mode: Comparing National Bicycle Policies, Cultures and Histories

 Harry Oosterhuis



part 2: Political and Economic Shaping of the Bicycle

4 Waves of Cycling Policy: Policies of Cycling, Mobility, and Urban Planning in Stockholm since 1970

 Martin Emanuel



5 Making the Bicycle Dutch: The Development of the Bicycle Industry in the Netherlands, 1860–1940

 Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai & Frank Veraart



Part 3 : Bicycle in the Practices

6 Betting on the Wheel: The Bicycle and Japan’s Post-War Recovery

 M. William Steele



7 Modernizing the Bicycle: The International Human-Powered Vehicle Movement and the “Bicycle Renaissance” since the 1970s

 Manuel Stoffers



8 History, Tweed and the Invisible Bicycle

 Nicholas Oddy



Bibliography

Index