bicycles

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Evan Friss is interviewed on his book, The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s.

This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of major Canadian environmental debates between the 1960s and 1980s, and examines a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use.

This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.

Wild Earth 13, no. 1, features essays that present contrasting views on mountain biking in the wilderness, the Clovis culture and origins of ecological awareness, as well as the National Wilderness Preservation System and wilderness abuse.

In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.