Tom Standage: A Brief History of Motion

Cover: 9781526608307 | A Brief History of Motion | Tom Standage | Taschenbuch | XVIII | 2022

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'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.

Über den Autor

Tom Standage is deputy editor of the Economist and the author of six previous history books, including Writing on the Wall, the New York Times bestsellers A History of the World in 6 Glasses and An Edible History of Humanity, and The Victorian Internet, a history of the telegraph. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Wired, and other publications. Standage holds a degree in engineering and computer science from Oxford University. He lives in London. [...]

Zusammenfassung

Tom Standage is London-based, and as deputy editor of the Economist he is one of the UK's most respected journalists. His books have hit the bestseller charts, sold nearly half a million copies globally and received standout reviews across the press. A Brief History of Motion will reintroduce him to existing fans and to new readers interested in transportation, technology, cultural history and big picture syntheses of the modern world

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XVIII 254 S.
ISBN-13:	9781526608307
ISBN-10:	1526608308
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	427165
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Standage, Tom
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	197 x 128 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Tom Standage
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.07.2022
Gewicht:	0,218 kg

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