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Car country : an environmental history /

For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, the author of this book argues, because the United States is Car Country - a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often even unsafe to navigate by those wh...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wells, Christopher W.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
Collection:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Before the Automobile, 1880–1905. Roads and reformers
  • Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895–1919. Automotive pioneers ; Building for traffic
  • Creating Car Country, 1919–1941. Motor-age geography ; Fueling the boom ; The paths out of town
  • New Patterns, New Standards, New Landscapes, 1940–1960. Suburban nation.