Clay Mcshane

The Automobile

A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car from the invention of the wheel to the O.J. Simpson car chase. It examines the auto industry, the road and roadside, the car in popular culture, gasoline/fuel history, the spatial transformation of cities, air pollution, critics of car culture, traffic accidents, the globalization of car culture, and much more. This is a reference guide for students and scholars of transportation history as well as anyone who has ever asked When did Japan export the first car to the U.S.? or When and how was smog discovered? or What make of car did Chuck Berry drive?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780313303081
• ISBN-10: 0313303088
• Artikelnr.: 22296612

Autorenporträt

CLAY McSHANE is Professor of History at Northeastern University and a noted authority on transportation history. Among his earlier publications is Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: To 1886 From Benz to Ford: 1886
1907 The Model T Era: 1908
1926 Peace and War: 1927
1945 The Age of Muscle and Smog: 1946
1964 End of the Honeymoon: 1965
1980 Revival: 1981
1995 Appendix: Car Museums in the U.S. Tables Index