- Hardcover: 520 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press; annotated edition edition (30 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0313245584
- ISBN-13: 978-0313245589
- Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,334,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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.,."explores the literature concerning the impact of the car on American social, economic, and political history."-Business Horizons
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Explores the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
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Histories of specific automotive companies, biographies of the people involved in their development, and popular accounts of the car's impact on American life were common by the 1920s. Read the first page
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Histories of specific automotive companies, biographies of the people involved in their development, and popular accounts of the car's impact on American life were common by the 1920s. Read the first page
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12 Feb 2003
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This is the essential, basic, first resource anyone should use when doing research on automobiles. Basically this book is just a bibliography leading you to other works on different aspects of the automotive world.
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