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Article: The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
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- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Glen Norcliffe. The Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. Pp. 288. Illustrations. $19.95 paper.
The Ride the Modernity is an interesting and ambitious book. In it, Glen Norcliffe tells the story of the bicycle in Canada over three eventful decades. His primary goal is to place the bicycle, a long neglected technology, in the larger context of the times and to use it to explore and highlight certain aspects of social, cultural and economic change. He focusses particular attention on the bicycle boom of the 1890s, when thousands of Canadians discovered and embraced cycling as the thoroughly modern thing to ...