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Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
    1. Henry Ford: From Popular Inventor to Legend
    2. Fordism and Cultural Circulation
    3. The Transnational Object
    4. Contradictions of Mobility
    5. Mechanical Actors
  • Final Remarks: Kinetic Modernity and the Automobile
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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A Paperback / softback by Guillermo Giucci, Anne Mayagoitia, Debra Nagao

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    Publisher: University of Texas Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/2012
    ISBN13: 9780292737846, 978-0292737846
    ISBN10: 029273784X
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    Social and cultural history Road and motor vehicles: general interest

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th

    Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
      1. Henry Ford: From Popular Inventor to Legend
      2. Fordism and Cultural Circulation
      3. The Transnational Object
      4. Contradictions of Mobility
      5. Mechanical Actors
    • Final Remarks: Kinetic Modernity and the Automobile
    • Bibliography
    • Index

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