Motoring - The Highway Experience in America

Informationen zum Autor JOHN A. JAKLE is an emeritus professor of geography and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is coauthor, with Keith A. Sculle, of many books related to automobile culture in America, including Lots of Parking and Fast Food . Klappentext Covers the myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience. This book features the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural and mechanical. It looks back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Zusammenfassung Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience—commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical—as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel, especially between 1900 and 1960.

Product details

• Authors: John Jakle, John A Jakle, John A. Jakle, John A. Sculle Jakle, John A./ Sculle Jakle, Keith Sculle, Keith A Sculle, Keith A. Sculle
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780820334158
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3415-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Centre for American Places
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic