Devil's Wheels

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.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man?AbbreviationsChapter 1. From Pioneers to Global Dominance: The First Forty Years of the German Motorcycle IndustryChapter 2. Engineering and Advertising a Motorized FutureChapter 3. Motorcycles and the "Everyman": Exploring the Motorcycling MilieuChapter 4. "Is Motorcycling Even Sport?": Strength and the National Body during the Weimar RepublicChapter 5. Deviant Behaviors: Inclusion, Exclusion, and CommunityChapter 6. Motoring Amazons?: Women and Motorcycling During the Weimar RepublicChapter 7. Sex and the Sidecar: Sexuality, Courtship, Marriage and MotorizationEpilogue: The Will to MotorAppendixBibliographyIndex

"All in all, Disko offers a pronounced multi-perspective analysis of the motor-cycle as `cultural commodity' in Weimar Germany, demonstrating impressively what a modern mobility study can achieve... Disko's study is innovative and highly readable...[it] makes an important contribution to the cultural history of motorcycling and even opens up a new perspective on the cultural history of the Weimar Republic." Journal of Transport History