Cultural Life of the Automobile - Roads to Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Guillermo Giucci is Professor at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao are American translators. Klappentext Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th Zusammenfassung Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from the technological innovation and freedom of access represented by cars Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgments Henry Ford: From Popular Inventor to LegendFordism and Cultural CirculationThe Transnational ObjectContradictions of MobilityMechanical ActorsFinal Remarks: Kinetic Modernity and the AutomobileBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Guillermo Giucci, Guillermo/ Mayagoitia Giucci
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne Mayagoitia (Traduzione), Debra Nagao (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Of Texas Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780292737846
• ISBN: 978-0-292-73784-6
• Pagine: 260
• Serie: University of Texas Press; LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series; LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series; Llilas Translations from Latin
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Meccanica, tecnica di produzione