Car Country: An Environmental History

Name: Car Country: An Environmental History
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ISBN: 9780295994291

ISBN-10: 0295994290

ISBN-13: 9780295994291

Edition: 2014

Authors: Christopher W. Wells, William Cronon

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For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country--a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car.The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, Wells rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile. Instead, he takes readers on a tour of the evolving American…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English