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Driving Detroit : The Quest for Respect in the Motor City /
For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling popula...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Metropolitan Portraits
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue. Two Daughters of Detroit
- 1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown
- 2. Sculpting Detroit: Polity and Economy Trump Geology
- 3. From Fort to Ford to ... ?
- 4. From Old World to Old South and Old Testament
- 5. Who Will Feast on the Fruits of Labor?
- 6. Turf Wars
- 7. Wrestling for Pieces of the Proletarian Pie
- 8. Feasting on Fear
- 9. The Dynamics of Decay, Abandonment, and Bankruptcy
- 10. What Drives Detroiters?
- 11. From Motown to Mortropolis
- Epilogue. Two Daughters of Detroit Revisited
- Selected References
- Index
- Acknowledgments