During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as w...
قائمة المحتويات
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man?
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Fr...
عن المؤلف
Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She received her Ph D in History from New York University, and she has been associated with the Center for Metropoli...
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