Book
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
History Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
Stealing Cars brings together expertise from the history of technology and cultural history as well as city planning and transborder studies to produce a compelling and detailed work that raises questions concerning American priorities and values. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life.
ISBN/ISSN
9781421412979
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2014, Johns Hopkins University Press. This material first appeared in Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino. John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Disciplines
Citation Information
John Alfred Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales. Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino. (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_heitmann/30/
Chapter 6, "The Recent Past," is provided for download by permission of the publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press. Permission documentation is on file.