The cultural life of the automobile [electronic resource] : roads to modernity / Guillermo Giucci ; translated by Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao.

Author/Creator:

Giucci, Guillermo, 1954-

Standardized Title:

Vida cultural del autom�ovil. English

Edition:

1st University of Texas Press ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2012.

Series:

LLILAS Translations from Latin America series.
LLILAS Translations from Latin America series

Format/Description:

Book
xix, 238 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.

Subjects:

Automobiles -- Social aspects.
Automobiles -- History.
Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States.
Automobiles -- United States -- History.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.
Originally published in Portugese in 2004 as A vida cultural do autom�ovel : Percursos da modernidade cin�etica. Rio de Janeiro: Civiliza�c�ao Brasileira. Published in Spanish in 2007 as La vida cultural del autom�ovil : Rutas de la modernidad cin�etica. Buenos Aire: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Contributor:

Mayagoitia, Anne.
Nagao, Debra.
ProQuest (Firm)

ISBN:

9780292728721 (alk. paper)
0292728727 (alk. paper)
9780292737846
029273784X
9780292743595 (e-book)

OCLC:

794672188

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