Republic of Drivers A Cultural History of Automobility in America

Name: Republic of Drivers A Cultural History of Automobility in America
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ISBN: 9780226745640

ISBN-10: 0226745643

ISBN-13: 9780226745640

Edition: 2008

Authors: Cotten Seiler

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Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity-driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans?Republic of Driverslooks back at the period between 1895 and 1961-from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System-to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary sources to illustrate the importance of driving to modern American conceptions of the self and the social…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Automobility and American Subjectivity



Individualism, Taylorization, and the Crisis of Republican Selfhood



Workmen's Compensation, Women's Emancipation: The Promise of Automobility, 1895-1929



Crafting Autonomous Subjects: Automobility and the Cold War



"So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By": African American Automobility and Midcentury Liberalism



"How Can the Driver Be Remodeled?": Automobility and the Liberal Subject


Conclusion: Automobility's Futures


List of abbreviations


Notes


Index