The automobile and American life / John Heitmann.

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"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 repre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heitmann, John Alfred (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Automobile industry and trade > United States > History.
Automobile industry and trade > Social aspects > United States > History.
Automobile industry and trade.
Automobile industry and trade > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 281 pages ; 26 cm
Format: Book
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.