The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-523-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Explorations in Mobility

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 well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Disko, Sasha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Verkehr: Ratgeber, Sachbuch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man?

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. From Pioneers to Global Dominance: The First Forty Years of the German Motorcycle Industry

Chapter 2. Engineering and Advertising a Motorized Future

Chapter 3. Motorcycles and the “Everyman”: Exploring the Motorcycling Milieu

Chapter 4. “Is Motorcycling Even Sport?”: Strength and the National Body during the Weimar Republic

Chapter 5. Deviant Behaviors: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Community

Chapter 6. Motoring Amazons?: Women and Motorcycling During the Weimar Republic

Chapter 7. Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage and Motorization

Epilogue: The Will to Motor

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Disko, Sasha
Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She received her PhD in History from New York University, and she has been associated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, since 2008. Her research interests include motorization, industrialization, and leisure.

Sasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She received her PhD in History from New York University, and she has been associated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, since 2008. Her research interests include motorization, industrialization, and leisure.