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Motoring : the highway experience in America / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle.
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- Author/Creator:
- Jakle, John A.
- Series:
- Center books on American places
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobile travel--United States--History.
- Automobile travel.
- Automobile driving--United States.
- Automobile driving.
- Roads--United States.
- Roads.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press ; Chicago : In association with the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road."
- Contents:
- Motoring : an introduction
- America's good roads search
- Detour ahead : rebuilding America's roads
- Highways as public prerogative
- Dealerships and garages
- The tourist's roadside
- Rejecting the roadside as landscaped landscape
- Limited-access highways as dream fulfillment
- Motoring by truck
- Motoring by bus
- Convenience in store
- The highway experience : a conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820330280
- 0820330280
- OCLC:
- 138341426
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