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America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: James J. Flink
Categories: Automobiles
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

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Between 1895 and the late 1920's American civilization was transformed by the automobile and the automobile industry. In American Adopts the Automobile, 1895-19
The Automobile and American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: David Lanier Lewis
Categories: Automobiles
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Presents essays on all phases of the American automobile industry and the effect of its product on individual lives and the culture of the society.
The Horse in the City
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Clay McShane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-16 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban Ame
Market Rebels
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Hayagreeva Rao
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in Ame
The Cycling City
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Evan Friss
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents