Republic of drivers : a cultural history of automobility in America / Cotten Seiler.

By:

Seiler, Cotten

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226745657
0226745651
9786612070228
6612070226
1282070223
9781282070226

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Republic of drivers.DDC classification:

303.48/320973 22

LOC classification:

HE5623 .S42 2008eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 Drivers looks 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 source.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-215) and index.

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 Drivers looks 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 source.