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Auto mania : cars, consumers, and the environment /
"The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manuf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2007]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : The great experiment
- 1. The arrogance of wealth
- 2. Foresight and emotion
- 3. A monstrously big thing
- 4. An industrial epic
- 5. The death and afterlife of automobiles
- 6. Cadillacs and community
- 7. Disenchanted with Detroit
- 8. If we can put a man on the Moon ...
- 9. The one who got it
- 10. Out of my dead hands
- 11. Small was beautiful
- 12. The riddle of the sport utility vehicle
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index.