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Uniform Title Vida cultural del automóvil. English
Title The cultural life of the automobile [electronic resource] : roads to modernity / Guillermo Giucci ; translated by Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao.
Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2012.
Edition 1st University of Texas Press ed.

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 Libraries Electronic Books  ELECTRONIC BOOK-Ebook Central Academic Complete    AVAIL. ONLINE
Description xix, 238 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.
Series LLILAS Translations from Latin America series.
Note Translated from the Spanish.
Originally published in Portugese in 2004 as A vida cultural do automóvel : Percursos da modernidade cinética. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira. Published in Spanish in 2007 as La vida cultural del automóvil : Rutas de la modernidad cinética. Buenos Aire: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Henry Ford : from popular inventor to legend -- Fordism and cultural circulation -- The transnational object -- Contradictions of mobility -- Mechanical actors -- Final remarks : kinetic modernity and the automobile.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Automobiles -- Social aspects.
Automobiles -- History.
Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States.
Automobiles -- United States -- History.
Added Author Mayagoitia, Anne.
Nagao, Debra.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292728721 (alk. paper)
0292728727 (alk. paper)
9780292737846
029273784X
9780292743595 (e-book)
OCLC # EBC3443612
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