Mobility without mayhem
Subtitle: safety, cars, and citizenship
By: Jeremy Packer.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780822339526; 9780822339632
Subjects: Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Motor vehicles -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: The crusade for traffic safety: mobilizing the suburban dream; title: Hitching the highway to hell: media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility; title: Motorcycle madness: the insane, profane, and newly tame; title: Communications convoy: the CB and truckers; title: Of Cadillacs and "coon cages": the racing of automobility; title: Raging with a machine: neoliberalism meets the automobile; title: Safety to security: future orientations of automobility.