The life of the automobile
Subtitle: a new history of the motor car
By: Steven Parissien
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781848877054; 9781782390213; 9781848877078
Subjects: Automobiles; Kraftwagen; Personenkraftwagen; Transport; History
Description: Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators, from its earliest appearance in the late nineteenth century to the global mergers of the 1990s and the bail-outs of the early twenty-first century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pioneers; title: Snakes and ladders: Europe between the wars; title: The big three; title: The age of gasoline; title: The people's war; title: Austerity Britain; title: Flight of the phoenix; title: The golden age; title: Zenith; title: The swinging sixties; title: Heroes and villains; title: Crisis? What crisis?; title: Eastern promise; title: Big beasts; title: Merge in turn; title: Futureworld.