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Autophobia : Love and Hate in the Automotive Age by Brian Ladd is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change—not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay for our automobility—some thirty million people were killed in car accidents during the twentieth century—plus the countless number of hours we waste in gridlock traffic commuting to work, running errands, picking up our kids, and searching for parking, and one can’t help but ask: Haven’t we had enough already? After a century behind the wheel, could we be reaching the end of the automotive age? From the Model T to the SUV, Autophobia reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new—in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century now, ever since the automobile was invented. According to Brian Ladd, this love and hate relationship we share with our cars is the defining quality of the automotive age. And everyone has an opinion about them, from the industry shills, oil barons, and radical libertarians who offer

Who reads Autophobia : Love and Hate in the Automotive Age?

Author

Brian Ladd

Publisher

University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226467412

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, History