Auto Mania Cars, Consumers, and the Environment

Name: Auto Mania Cars, Consumers, and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780300110388

ISBN-10: 0300110383

ISBN-13: 9780300110388

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tom McCarthy

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The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In "Auto Mania" he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle--from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, "Auto Mania" explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford's…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/24/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Great Experiment



The Arrogance of Wealth



Foresight and Emotion



A Monstrously Big Thing



An Industrial Epic



The Death and Afterlife of Automobiles



Cadillacs and Community



Disenchanted with Detroit



If We Can Put a Man on the Moon



The One Who Got It



Out of My Dead Hands



Small Was Beautiful



The Riddle of the sport Utility Vehicle


Epilogue


Notes


Index