Auto Mania

Auto Mania
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0300110383

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 the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, Auto Mania explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford’s fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley’s widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming. McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America’s market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.

Auto-mania!

Auto-mania!
Author: David Kimber
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836837810

Hit the road with some of the world's fastest cars in Auto-Mania. Learn about the incredible McLaren F[subscript 1] and the superfast Porsche 911 GT[subscript 2]. Find out the best way to back up a Lamborghini Murcielago and how the Pagani Zonda got its name. Featuring thirteen of the world's hottest automobiles, this book is a must for all young car lovers! Book jacket.

Automania

Automania
Author: Juliet Kinchin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781633451278

Automaniaexplores the ways in which motor vehicles reshaped how people lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves over the course of the 20th century, and the continuing positive and negative imprint on the design and organization of today's built environment. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the catalogue showcases ten cars in MoMA's collection: a Jeep (designed 1952), a Citroën DS23 (1973), a Volkswagen Beetle (designed 1938), a Fiat Cinquecento City Car (launched 1957), a Pininfarina Cisitalia 202 GT Car (designed 1946), a Formula 1 Racing Car, (1990), a Porsche 911 coupé (1965), an Airstream Bambi Traveler (1960), E-type Roadster (1966), and a Smart Car (1998). Presented alongside the vehicles are car parts, architectural models, films, photographs, posters, paintings, and sculptures, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1898 print L'Automobiliste, Lily Reich's 1930s designs for a tubular-steel car seat, photographs of American car factories (c. 1930-32) by Margaret Bourke-White, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times (1963) by Andy Warhol, and Jorge Rigamonti's 1966-70 photocollage illustrating a dystopic view of environmental destruction in Venezuela.Organized into six thematic chapters, Automania includes an introductory essay by curator Juliet Kinchin and examines the car as a modern industrial product, transportation innovator, and style icon, as well as the generator of fatalities, traffic-choked environments, and ecological disaster in the oil age. "Cars have reimagined mobility, connecting us across great distances at ever greater speed, but this increased freedom and economic empowerment have come at the expense of tremendous human suffering and environmental damage," says Kinchin.

Stock Cars

Stock Cars
Author: Matt Doeden
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543524729

Speed, danger, and intense competition-these are just a few elements that make stock car racing such a popular sport. See powerful stock cars close up and learn how racing teams build them for speed and safety.

Automania

Automania
Author: Julian Pettifer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1984
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Classic Cars, 1931-1980

Classic Cars, 1931-1980
Author: Norm Mort
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778730125

Introduces earlier built automobiles, who built them, and how we view them today.

Muscle Cars

Muscle Cars
Author: Katharine Bailey
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778730101

A look at the world of muscle cars.

Car Mania

Car Mania
Author: Winfried Wolf
Publisher: Pluto Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780745309712

This study, covering 200 years, takes a look at transport past and present. It examines current European and American transport structures and policies in the light of sustainability and the environment and the social and economic consequences of the prese

Supercars

Supercars
Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 144889218X

Readers will be engrossed with this collection of some of the most enviable supercars on Earth, from yesterday’s Ferrari Testarosa to today’s Bugatti Veyron. Each auto profile sports a brief history, list of specifications, and colorful and kinetic image of the car in action. Readers will be engaged for hours checking out these machines of beauty.

Mania for Freedom

Mania for Freedom
Author: John Mac Kilgore
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1469629739

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginative excess. In analyzing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion, politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasm linked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicled here fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings to forge international or antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis across national boundaries, Kilgore contends that American enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent sentimental counterpart, stressed democratic resistance over domestic reform as it navigated the global political sphere. By analyzing a range of canonical American authors--including William Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman--Kilgore places their works in context with the causes, wars, and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In doing so, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's centrality in the shaping of American literary history.