The Automobile - A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car from the invention of the wheel to the O.J. Simpson car chase. It examines the auto industry, the road and roadside, the car in popular culture, gasoline/fuel history, the spatial transformation of cities, air pollution, critics of car culture, traffic accidents, the globalization of car culture, and much more. This is a reference guide for students and scholars of transportation history as well as anyone who has ever asked When did Japan export the first car to the U.S.? or When and how was smog discovered? or What make of car did Chuck Berry drive?

List of contents

Prelude: To 1886
From Benz to Ford: 1886-1907
The Model T Era: 1908-1926
Peace and War: 1927-1945
The Age of Muscle and Smog: 1946-1964
End of the Honeymoon: 1965-1980
Revival: 1981-1995
Appendix: Car Museums in the U.S.
Tables
Index

About the author

CLAY McSHANE is Professor of History at Northeastern University and a noted authority on transportation history. Among his earlier publications is Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile.

Product details

• Authors: Clay McShane, McShane Clay
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.1997
• EAN: 9780313303081
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30308-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 539 g
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; USA, Business, Cultural Studies, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry, Motor cars: general interest, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Automotive technology and trades, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Automotive technology & trades, Road vehicle manufacturing industry, Vehicle and transport manufacturing industries