Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.
Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kenneth O’Reilly is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska–Anchorage and an instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He is the author of several books, including Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton and “Racial Matters”: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960–1972.
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Preface Introduction: Power, Culture, Space Part 1. Before Blacktop 1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes 2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars 3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages Part 2. Coming to America 4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn 5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun 6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War 7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers 8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century Conclusion: The Other Black Hole Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction: Power, Culture, Space Part 1. Before Blacktop 1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes 2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars 3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages Part 2. Coming to America 4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn 5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun 6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War 7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers 8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century Conclusion: The Other Black Hole Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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