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"The Dizzy Race to Nowhere": The business of professional cycling in North America, 1891--1940.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The Dizzy Race to Nowhere": The business of professional cycling in North America, 1891--1940./
Author:	de Wilde, Ari C.
Description:	320 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-01A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3435030
ISBN:	9781124337449

"The Dizzy Race to Nowhere": The business of professional cycling in North America, 1891--1940.
de Wilde, Ari C.

"The Dizzy Race to Nowhere": The business of professional cycling in North America, 1891--1940. - 320 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2010.

Once called "The Dizzy Race to Nowhere," American professional bicycle racing from 1891 to 1940 was a significant professional sport in America. My dissertation examines entrepreneurial and consumer aspects of a sport that is largely forgotten today. I argue that it was a significant, lower class-based industry and that its demise in the 1930s was a product of what economist Joseph Schumpeter termed "Creative Destruction." In particular, the dissertation follows the life of promoters Patrick Powers, Floyd MacFarland, John M. Chapman and Harry Mendel. Through their life experiences, I scrutinize how working-class riders and promoters from all over the globe picked up the shattered pieces of the "bicycle boom" of the 1890s and created a popular industry.

ISBN: 9781124337449Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

"The Dizzy Race to Nowhere": The business of professional cycling in North America, 1891--1940.
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