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Republic of drivers : a cultural history of automobility in America / Cotten Seiler

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Author:
Seiler, Cotten  Search this
Physical description:
x, 230 p. : ill ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2008
20th century
Contents:
Introduction: Automobility and American subjectivity -- Individualism, Taylorization, and the crisis of Republican selfhood -- Workmen's compensation, women's emancipation: the promise of automobility, 1895-1929 -- Crafting autonomous subjects: automobility and the cold war -- "So that we as a race might have something authentic to travel by": African American automobility and midcentury liberalism -- "How can the driver be remodeled?" : automobility and the liberal subject -- Conclusion: Automobility's futures
Topic:
Automobiles--Social aspects--History  Search this
National characteristics, American  Search this
Social values--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_921932