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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seiler, Cotten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
Automobiles > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
Social values > United States > History > 20th century.
Automobiles > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Automobiles > Social aspects
Civilization
National characteristics, American
Social conditions
Social values
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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