The automobile and American life / John Heitmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heitmann, John Alfred, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile industry and trade--United States--History.

Automobile industry and trade.

Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects.

History.

United States.

Automobile industry and trade--Social aspects--United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 281 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

"This book tells how the automobile transformed American life and how design and technology have changed. Subjects include Henry Ford and the advent of mass production; the development of roads and highway; effects of the Great Depression and World War II; and how American car culture has been represented in film, music and literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the automobile, its history and influence, and some contradictions

Beginnings : from a mechanical curiosity to a plaything for the well-to-do

The inscrutable Henry Ford and the rise of the machine age

The rise of the competition and the consumer during the 1920s

From mud to the open road

Religion, courtship, sex, and women drivers

The interwar years : the great depression, aerodynamics, and cars of the olympian age

World War II and the reconversion economy : no time for sergeants or aspiring automobile manufacturers

The golden age of the automobile : the 1950s in America

The go-go years, 1959-1970

America and the automobile during the 1970s

The automobile world upside down, 1980-2015

Epilogue: the automobile and one American life

Chapter notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476669359

147666935X

OCLC:

1039206797