Republic of Drivers
A Cultural History of Automobility in America
240 pages, 10 halftones, 4 line drawings 6 x 9
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2008
Cloth $52.00
ISBN: 9780226745633
Published December 2008
Paper $19.00
ISBN: 9780226745640
Published December 2008
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Automobility and American Subjectivity
Chapter 1: Individualism, Taylorization, and the Crisis of Republican Selfhood
Chapter 2: Workmen’s Compensation, Women’s Emancipation: The Promise of Automobility, 1895–1929
Chapter 3: Crafting Autonomous Subjects: Automobility and the Cold War
Chapter 4: “So That We as a Race Might Have Something Authentic to Travel By”: African American Automobility and Midcentury Liberalism
Chapter 5: “How Can the Driver Be Remodeled?”: Automobility and the Liberal Subject
Conclusion: Automobility’s Futures
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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