The automobile and American life
By: John Heitmann
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781476669359
Subjects: Automobile industry and trade; History
Description: "This book tells how the automobile transformed American life and how design and technology have changed. Subjects include Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; the development of roads and highway; effects of the Great Depression and World War II; and how American car culture has been represented in film, music and literature"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the automobile, its history and influence, and some contradictions; title: Beginnings : from a mechanical curiosity to a plaything for the well-to-do; title: The inscrutable Henry Ford and the rise of the machine age; title: The rise of the competition and the consumer during the 1920s; title: From mud to the open road; title: Religion, courtship, sex, and women drivers; title: The interwar years : the great depression, aerodynamics, and cars of the olympian age; title: World War II and the reconversion economy : no time for sergeants or aspiring automobile manufacturers; title: The golden age of the automobile : the 1950s in America; title: The go-go years, 1959-1970; title: America and the automobile during the 1970s; title: The automobile world upside down, 1980-2015; title: Epilogue: the automobile and one American life; title: Chapter notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.