Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Horseless Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
The Automobile
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The Automobile in American History and Culture
Author: Michael L. BergerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313016062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Author: Melissa Holbrook PiersonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078361
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.
Cyclopedia ofAutomobileEngineering
Author: American School of CorrespondencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Automobile Engineering
Author: Cyclopedia of Automobile Engineering: Steam automobiles. Commercial vehichles. Types of automobiles
Author: Cyclopedia of Automobile Engineering: Gasoline automobiles. Automobile mechanisms. Glossary of automobile terms
Author: Cyclopedia of Automobile Engineering: Aërial navigation. Gas and oil engines. Motorcycles. Motor boats
Author: The Electric Vehicle
Author: Gijs MomPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.