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Auto Mania

Paperback • 2009 • English

Auto Mania

By Tom McCarthy

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About the book

The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle-from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned ...Show more

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ISBN

9780300158489

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Auto Mania

Format

Paperback

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