The cultural life of the automobile roads to modernity / [electronic resource] :
Guillermo Giucci ; translated by Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao.
- 1st University of Texas Press ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2012.
- xix, 238 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
- LLILAS Translations from Latin America series .
- LLILAS Translations from Latin America series. .
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.
9780292743595 (electronic bk.)
Automobiles--Social aspects. Automobiles--History. Automobiles--Social aspects--United States. Automobiles--History.--United States