Atlantic Automobilism
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present qcar society.q Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.Or they used the afamily machine, a as an Australian car journal opined in 1928 ... And although, according to one historian, the Lynds miscalculated the car ownership rate, they did acknowledge the existence of a middle class during their anbsp;...
| Title | : | Atlantic Automobilism |
| Author | : | Gijs Mom |
| Publisher | : | Berghahn Books - 2014-12-15 |
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