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Auto opium : a social history of American automobile design /
By: Gartman, David
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Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: xvi, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415105714 (hbk.) :; 9780415105712:; 0415105722 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Automobiles -- Bodies -- United States -- Design and construction -- History | Automobiles -- United States -- Bodies -- Design and construction -- History | Automobiles -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century | Cars Design History | United StatesDDC classification: 629.231 Summary: '...an exemplary sociological analysis of American's infatuation with gasoline-powered dreams and how such dreams both fuel and fuse individual identity with that of the nation state.' Peter McLaren, UCLA.
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 629.231 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0034800 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-252) and index.
'...an exemplary sociological analysis of American's infatuation with gasoline-powered dreams and how such dreams both fuel and fuse individual identity with that of the nation state.' Peter McLaren, UCLA.