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Car Country : An Environmental History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Weyerhaeuser Environmental BksPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (465 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295804477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Car CountryDDC classification:
  • 388.3/420973
LOC classification:
  • WEB
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE: A Car of One's Own -- PART I: Before the Automobile, 1880-1905 -- 1 Roads and Reformers -- PART II: Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895-1919 -- 2 Automotive Pioneers -- 3 Building for Traffic -- Photo Gallery One -- PART III: Creating Car Country, 1919-1941 -- 4 Motor-Age Geography -- 5 Fueling the Boom -- 6 The Paths Out of Town -- Photo Gallery Two -- PART IV: New Patterns, New Standards, New Landscapes, 1940-1960 -- 7 Suburban Nation -- EPILOGUE: Reaching for the Car Keys -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE: A Car of One's Own -- PART I: Before the Automobile, 1880-1905 -- 1 Roads and Reformers -- PART II: Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895-1919 -- 2 Automotive Pioneers -- 3 Building for Traffic -- Photo Gallery One -- PART III: Creating Car Country, 1919-1941 -- 4 Motor-Age Geography -- 5 Fueling the Boom -- 6 The Paths Out of Town -- Photo Gallery Two -- PART IV: New Patterns, New Standards, New Landscapes, 1940-1960 -- 7 Suburban Nation -- EPILOGUE: Reaching for the Car Keys -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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