The Automobile: A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

by Clay McShane

Book Overview

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car from the invention of the wheel to the O.J. Simpson car chase. It examines the auto industry, the road and roadside, the car in popular culture, gasoline/fuel history, the spatial transformation of cities, air pollution, critics of car culture, traffic accidents, the globalization of car culture, and much more. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313303088
• ISBN13: 9780313303081
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"