The life of the automobile the complete history of the motor car

"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age, historian D...

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Main Author: Parissien, Steven (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Edition:First U.S. Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pioneers
  • Snakes and ladders : Europe between the wars
  • The Big Three
  • The Age of Gasoline
  • The people's war
  • Austerity Britain
  • Flight of the phoenix
  • The Golden Age
  • Zenith
  • The swinging sixties
  • Heroes and villains
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • Eastern promise
  • Big beasts
  • Merge in turn
  • Futureworld.