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Republic of drivers : a cultural history of automobility in America /

Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity--driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1...

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Основен автор: Seiler, Cotten.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Предмети:
1900-1999
Automobiles > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Social values > United States > History > 20th century.
Automobiles.
SOCIAL VALUES.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Automobiles > Social aspects.
Civilization.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
United States > .
Electronic books.
History.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=272598
Подобни документи: Print version:: Republic of drivers.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: Automobility and American subjectivity
  • Individualism, Taylorization, and the crisis of Republican selfhood
  • Workmen's compensation, women's emancipation: the promise of automobility, 1895-1929
  • Crafting autonomous subjects: automobility and the cold war
  • "So that we as a race might have something authentic to travel by": African American automobility and midcentury liberalism
  • "How can the driver be remodeled?" : automobility and the liberal subject
  • Conclusion: Automobility's futures.

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