Killer on the road : violence and the American interstate / Ginger Strand.
Material type: TextSeries: Discovering America seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780292742109
- 029274210X
- Murder -- United States -- History
- Murderers -- United States -- Biography
- Violence -- United States -- History
- Interstate Highway System -- Social aspects -- History
- Express highways -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Automobile travel -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Meurtre -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Meurtriers -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Violence -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Interstate Highway System -- Aspect social -- Histoire
- Autoroutes -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Voyages en automobile -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-
- TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General
- Automobile travel -- Social aspects
- Express highways -- Social aspects
- Murder
- Murderers
- Social conditions
- Violence
- United States
- Since 1945
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- HV6524 .S77 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Killer on the Road -- What a Mean World This Is -- Forklift -- The Cruelest Blow -- American Isolato -- Drive-by Truckers -- A Prayer for the Body Buried by the Interstate.
Looks at the correlation between the construction of the Interstate Highway system and the rise in the national murder rate, highlighting specific killers and how the highway system changed America.
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