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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom McCarthy |
| ISBN: | 9780300110388 0300110383 9780300158489 0300158483 |
| OCLC Number: | 123029624 |
| Description: | xx, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction : The great experiment -- 1. The arrogance of wealth -- 2. Foresight and emotion -- 3. A monstrously big thing -- 4. An industrial epic -- 5. The death and afterlife of automobiles -- 6. Cadillacs and community -- 7. Disenchanted with Detroit -- 8. If we can put a man on the Moon ... -- 9. The one who got it -- 10. Out of my dead hands -- 11. Small was beautiful -- 12. The riddle of the sport utility vehicle -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Tom McCarthy. |
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Abstract:
The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment. This work presents the environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle.
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." . . superb snapshots of paths taken and missed in the history of auto manufacturing . . . with a[n] . . . emphasis on [its] environmental impact. . . . Scholars and students of business and economic history, as well as the history of technology, will find insights . . . " -- Brian Black "Enterprise & Society" Read more...
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