Republic of drivers [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of automobility in America / / Cotten Seiler |
Autore | Seiler Cotten |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/320973 |
Soggetto topico |
Automobiles - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
National characteristics, American Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612070228
1-282-07022-3 0-226-74565-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454030203321 |
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Republic of drivers [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of automobility in America / / Cotten Seiler |
Autore | Seiler Cotten |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/320973 |
Soggetto topico |
Automobiles - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
National characteristics, American Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato | automobile use, identity, obesity, global warming, climate change, traffic congestion, urban sprawl, gas prices, fossil fuels, natural resources, environmentalism, freedom, agency, independence, mobility, interstate highway system, factory, individualism, sustainable, community, energy crisis, driving, drivers, marginalized, women, gender, race, social values, taylorization, self, republicanism, cold war, nonfiction, history, politics |
ISBN |
9786612070228
1-282-07022-3 0-226-74565-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782971603321 |
Seiler Cotten
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 | ||
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Republic of drivers [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of automobility in America / / Cotten Seiler |
Autore | Seiler Cotten |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/320973 |
Soggetto topico |
Automobiles - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
National characteristics, American Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato | automobile use, identity, obesity, global warming, climate change, traffic congestion, urban sprawl, gas prices, fossil fuels, natural resources, environmentalism, freedom, agency, independence, mobility, interstate highway system, factory, individualism, sustainable, community, energy crisis, driving, drivers, marginalized, women, gender, race, social values, taylorization, self, republicanism, cold war, nonfiction, history, politics |
ISBN |
9786612070228
1-282-07022-3 0-226-74565-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818487903321 |
Seiler Cotten
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The short American century [[electronic resource] ] : a postmortem / / edited by Andrew J. Bacevich |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.91 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BacevichAndrew J |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - American influences
National characteristics, American Politics and culture - United States Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-674-06474-7
0-674-06864-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Life at the Dawn of the American Century - Andrew J. Bacevich; 2. The Origins and Uses of American Hyperpower - David M. Kennedy; 3. Consuming the American Century - Emily S. Rosenberg; 4. The Problem of Color and Democracy - Nikhil Pal Singh; 5. Pragmatic Realism versus the American Century - J. Jackson Lears; 6. Toward Transnationalism - Akira Iriye; 7. From the American Century to Globalization - Jeffry A. Frieden; 8. Illusions of an American Century - Walter LaFeber; 9. The Heavenly City of Business - Eugene McCarraher; 10. Not So Different After All - Andrew J. Bacevich
NotesAcknowledgments; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465493103321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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The short American century [[electronic resource] ] : a postmortem / / edited by Andrew J. Bacevich |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.91 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BacevichAndrew J |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - American influences
National characteristics, American Politics and culture - United States Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-674-06474-7
0-674-06864-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Life at the Dawn of the American Century - Andrew J. Bacevich; 2. The Origins and Uses of American Hyperpower - David M. Kennedy; 3. Consuming the American Century - Emily S. Rosenberg; 4. The Problem of Color and Democracy - Nikhil Pal Singh; 5. Pragmatic Realism versus the American Century - J. Jackson Lears; 6. Toward Transnationalism - Akira Iriye; 7. From the American Century to Globalization - Jeffry A. Frieden; 8. Illusions of an American Century - Walter LaFeber; 9. The Heavenly City of Business - Eugene McCarraher; 10. Not So Different After All - Andrew J. Bacevich
NotesAcknowledgments; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791936203321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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The short American century [[electronic resource] ] : a postmortem / / edited by Andrew J. Bacevich |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.91 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BacevichAndrew J |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - American influences
National characteristics, American Politics and culture - United States Social values - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-674-06474-7
0-674-06864-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1. Life at the Dawn of the American Century - Andrew J. Bacevich; 2. The Origins and Uses of American Hyperpower - David M. Kennedy; 3. Consuming the American Century - Emily S. Rosenberg; 4. The Problem of Color and Democracy - Nikhil Pal Singh; 5. Pragmatic Realism versus the American Century - J. Jackson Lears; 6. Toward Transnationalism - Akira Iriye; 7. From the American Century to Globalization - Jeffry A. Frieden; 8. Illusions of an American Century - Walter LaFeber; 9. The Heavenly City of Business - Eugene McCarraher; 10. Not So Different After All - Andrew J. Bacevich
NotesAcknowledgments; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822842703321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 | ||
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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / / Andrew L. Yarrow |
Autore | Yarrow Andrew L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina | 339.4/30973 |
Soggetto topico |
Thriftiness - United States - History - 20th century
Social movements - United States - History - 20th century Social values - United States - History - 20th century Saving and investment - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61376-348-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910's/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465274503321 |
Yarrow Andrew L.
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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / / Andrew L. Yarrow |
Autore | Yarrow Andrew L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina | 339.4/30973 |
Soggetto topico |
Thriftiness - United States - History - 20th century
Social movements - United States - History - 20th century Social values - United States - History - 20th century Saving and investment - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 1-61376-348-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910's/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798315203321 |
Yarrow Andrew L.
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 | ||
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Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / / Andrew L. Yarrow |
Autore | Yarrow Andrew L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina | 339.4/30973 |
Soggetto topico |
Thriftiness - United States - History - 20th century
Social movements - United States - History - 20th century Social values - United States - History - 20th century Saving and investment - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 1-61376-348-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910's/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824337903321 |
Yarrow Andrew L.
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