More than any other artifact of modern technology, the automobile
has shaped our physical, social, and cultural environment. At the
same time, the history of the automobile demonstrates how decisions
made by governments, entrepreneurs, and the general public have
strongly affected the automobile's evolution. Cars and Cultures
provides a succinct yet comprehensive history of the automobile.
While the book highlights the technical changes that altered the
appearance and performance of automobiles, it also explores the
political, economic, social, and cultural forces that shaped the
car's development. Because of the wide-ranging impact of the
automobiles, no history would be complete without covering the
components essential for our automotive-based transportation
system--roads and highways, gasoline production, traffic laws,
governmental regulation-- as well as the other aspects of our
social and cultural history that were deeply affected by the
history of the automobile--labor unions, suburbanization, travel
and recreation, and the fast-food industry. Anyone fascinated by
the history of the automobile will find much of interest in this
volume. Students and general readers will find such information as:
BLOf the 4,192 cars produced in the U.S. in 1900, 1,681 were
steam-powered, 1,575 were electrics, and only 936 used internal
combustion engines BLGeneral John Pershing organized a convoy of 79
trucks that crossed the U.S. from Washington to San Francisco in
1919. Hampered by the poor state of the roads upon which they
traveled, the trucks averaged only fifty miles a day, and needed 56
days to complete their journey. BLIn 1960, the entire Japanese
automobile industry exported fewer than1000 cars to the United
States; by the early 1980s, it became such a threat to the U.S.
auto industry that the U.S. government limited Japanese imports to
1.65 million cars per year. BLAlthough focused on the United
States, it is global in scope, with comparisons to how the
automobile developed in Europe, Japan, and elsewhere. The volume
includes a chronology of the automobile's evolution, a glossary of
technical terms, a selected bibliography, and more than 20
photographs and illustrations.
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