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A Vehicle for Change - Popular Representations of the Automobile in 20th-Century France (Hardcover)
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A Vehicle for Change - Popular Representations of the Automobile in 20th-Century France (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Modern and Contemporary France, 10
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An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the
Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Since its
invention, the automobile has been systematically 'consumed', to
become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century
society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge
of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity,
the automobile conditioned the very texture of modern life, and the
particularly car-centred society of contemporary France is an
especially apt locus for examination. The ubiquity of the
automobile across all social strata provides us with a defined lens
through which to examine the evolution of French society in the
modern and post-modern eras. Taking the Second World War as a
pivotal moment in recent French history, this book demonstrates how
the automobile was both consumed and fetishized in distinct ways
before and after this conflict. The ways in which society evolved
from the pre- to the post-war period allow us to view French
culture through the prism of the automobile as it embodied
technological and social progress in twentieth-century France. The
present volume seeks to explore and interrogate the processes of
representation and mediation inherent in the evolving patterns of
automobile consumption, and their subsequent impacts on local and
national identity, framed by a detailed case study centred on
France from the late-nineteenth century to the oil crisis of the
early 1970s.
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