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Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (Center Books on American Places)
John A. Jakle
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Description for Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (Center Books on American Places)
Paperback. Covers the myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience. This book features the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural and mechanical. It looks back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Series: Centre for American Places. Num Pages: 288 pages, 75 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WGC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
This is a 2008 choice outstanding academic title. It covers the myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience. ""Motoring"" unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical - as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the 'open road.' ... Read more
This is a 2008 choice outstanding academic title. It covers the myth of the open road and the reality of the American driving experience. ""Motoring"" unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical - as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the 'open road.' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Centre for American Places
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820334158
SKU
V9780820334158
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About John A. Jakle
John A. Jakle (left) is an emeritus professor of geography and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle (right) is the head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
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