Auto Mechanics - Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Kevin L. Borg is an associate professor of history at James Madison University. Klappentext The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention! manufacturing! and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Spanning a century of automotive technology -- from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth -- Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study for the first time. Zusammenfassung In the history of the American auto mechanic! Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.

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Kevin L. Borg is an associate professor of history at James Madison University.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin L. Borg, Kevin L. (Associate Professor Borg, Kevin L. (Professor Borg, Borg Kevin L.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2007
• EAN: 9780801886065
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8606-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Industry and Society; Studies in Industry and Societ; Studies in Industry and Society; Studies in Industry and Societ
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive, HISTORY / Social History, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, Automotive technology and trades, Automotive technology & trades, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history