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Asphalt : A History /

"Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Reilly, Kenneth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nature : tar pits and asphalt volcanoes
  • Use : fired bricks and mummy wars
  • Faith : asphalt's dark ages
  • Triumph : the blacktop dawn
  • Duty : conquering poverty and mud, Reich and Rising Sun
  • Crusades : asphalt in the Cold War
  • Angles : terrorists, tricksters, Tea Partiers
  • Overburden : the oil sand century
  • Conclusion : the other black hole.