04110nam 2200685 a 450 991081848790332120200520144314.097866120702281-282-07022-30-226-74565-110.7208/9780226745657(CKB)1000000000725307(EBL)432294(OCoLC)435816611(SSID)ssj0000236283(PQKBManifestationID)11216444(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236283(PQKBWorkID)10165163(PQKB)11491044(MiAaPQ)EBC432294(DE-B1597)535694(OCoLC)812509555(DE-B1597)9780226745657(Au-PeEL)EBL432294(CaPaEBR)ebr10288717(CaONFJC)MIL207022(EXLCZ)99100000000072530720080221d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepublic of drivers a cultural history of automobility in America /Cotten Seiler1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-74564-3 0-226-74563-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-215) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Automobility and American Subjectivity -- Chapter One: Individualism, Taylorization, and the Crisis of Republican Selfhood -- Chapter Two Workmen's Compensation, Women's Emancipation: The Promise of Automobility, 1895-1929 -- Chapter Three. Crafting Autonomous Subjects: Automobility and the Cold War -- Chapter Four. " So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By": African American Automobility and Midcentury Liberalism -- Chapter Five. " How Can the Driver Be Remodeled?": Automobility and the Liberal Subject -- Epilogue. Automobility's Futures -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- IndexRising 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 sources to illustrate the importance of driving to modern American conceptions of the self and the social and political order. He finds that as the figure of the driver blurred into the figure of the citizen, automobility became a powerful resource for women, African Americans, and others seeking entry into the public sphere. And yet, he argues, the individualistic but anonymous act of driving has also monopolized our thinking about freedom and democracy, discouraging the crafting of a more sustainable way of life. As our fantasies of the open road turn into fears of a looming energy crisis, Seiler shows us just how we ended up a republic of drivers-and where we might be headed. AutomobilesSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, AmericanSocial valuesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions20th centuryUnited StatesCivilization20th centuryAutomobilesSocial aspectsHistoryNational characteristics, American.Social valuesHistory303.48/320973Seiler Cotten1101268MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818487903321Republic of drivers4122082UNINA