Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment

by Tom McCarthy

Book Overview

A history of why the environmental problems that American automobile consumers and automakers created proved so hard to fix

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 manufacturer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300158483
• ISBN13: 9780300158489
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"