The cultural life of the automobile [electronic resource] : roads to modernity / Guillermo Giucci ; translated by Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2012Edition: 1st University of Texas Press edDescription: xix, 238 p., [12] p. of plates : illISBN: 9780292743595 (electronic bk.)Uniform titles: Vida cultural del automovil. English Subject(s): Automobiles -- Social aspects | Automobiles -- History | Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States | Automobiles -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 388.3/42 LOC classification: HE5611 | .G5813 2012Online resources: Click to View Translated from the Spanish.
Originally published in Portugese in 2004 as A vida cultural do automovel : Percursos da modernidade cinetica. Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasileira. Published in Spanish in 2007 as La vida cultural del automovil : Rutas de la modernidad cinetica. Buenos Aire: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Henry Ford : from popular inventor to legend -- Fordism and cultural circulation -- The transnational object -- Contradictions of mobility -- Mechanical actors -- Final remarks : kinetic modernity and the automobile.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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