A Brief History of Motion

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Uitgeverij: Bloomsbury
Uitvoering: Paperback
Taal: Engels
Staat van het boek: Licht beschadigd
Aantal Pagina's: 272
Afmetingen: 131x198x21
Verschijningsdatum: Juli 2022
EAN: 9781526608307

Samenvatting

'speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' 'sunday Times

''standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times

'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it is worth reading for itself. 'standage is a writer of this class' Wall 'street Journal

Beginning around 3,500 Bc with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom 'standage puts the rise of the car - and the future of urban transport - into a broader historical context.

Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways, many of which are so familiar that we no longer notice them. Why does red mean stop and green mean go? Why do some countries drive on the left, and some on the right? How did cars, introduced only a little over a century ago, change the way the world was administered, laid out and policed, along with experiences like eating and shopping? And what might travel in a post-car world look like?

As social transformations from ride-sharing to the global pandemic force us to critically re-examine our relationship with personal transportation, A Brief History of Motion is an essential contribution to our understanding of how the modern world came to be.