Mobility without mayhem : safety, cars, and citizenship /

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A cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Packer, Jeremy, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Duke backfile
Subjects:
Automobiles > Social aspects > United States > History.
Motor vehicles > Social aspects > United States > History.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
TRANSPORTATION > Automotive > History.
Automobiles > Social aspects.
Autofahren
Verkehrsentwicklung
Techniksoziologie
United States.
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The crusade for traffic safety: mobilizing the suburban dream
  • Hitching the highway to hell: media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility
  • Motorcycle madness: the insane, profane, and newly tame
  • Communications convoy: the CB and truckers
  • Of Cadillacs and "coon cages": the racing of automobility
  • Raging with a machine: neoliberalism meets the automobile
  • Safety to security: future orientations of automobility.

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