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Author Packer, Jeremy, 1970- author.

Title Mobility without mayhem : safety, cars, and citizenship / Jeremy Packer
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 349 pages) : illustrations
Series Duke backfile
Contents The crusade for traffic safety: mobilizing the suburban dream -- Hitching the highway to hell: media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility -- Motorcycle madness: the insane, profane, and newly tame -- Communications convoy: the CB and truckers -- Of Cadillacs and "coon cages": the racing of automobility -- Raging with a machine: neoliberalism meets the automobile -- Safety to security: future orientations of automobility
Summary A cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Motor vehicles -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
TRANSPORTATION -- Automotive -- History.
Automobiles -- Social aspects
Autofahren
Verkehrsentwicklung
Techniksoziologie
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822388906
0822388901
0822339528
9780822339526