Auto Mania - Cars, Consumers, and the Environment

Presents the environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire created impacts across the product lifecycle, from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. This book examines how Henry Ford's fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Mccarthy, McCarthy Tom
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2009
• EAN: 9780300158489
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15848-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; USA, NATURE / Ecology, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Motor cars: general interest, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Social impact of environmental issues