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Motoring : the highway experience in America
- Title
- Motoring : the highway experience in America / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle.
- Author
- Jakle, John A.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press ; Chicago : In association with the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, [2008], ©2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Sculle, Keith A.
- Description
- 274 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience - commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical - as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road."" "Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile - individual prerogative - still substantially obscures this reality."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Center books on American places
- Uniform Title
- Center books on American places.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-261) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Motoring: An Introduction -- 2. America's Good Roads Search -- 3. Detour Ahead: Rebuilding America's Roads -- 4. Highways as Public Prerogative -- 5. Dealerships and Garages -- 6. The Tourist's Roadside -- 7. Rejecting the Roadside as Landscaped Landscape -- 8. Limited-Access Highways as Dream Fulfillment -- 9. Motoring by Truck -- 10. Motoring by Bus -- 11. Convenience in Store -- 12. The Highway Experience: A Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780820330280 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0820330280 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007022330
- 99820240219
- OCLC
- ocn138341426
- 138341426
- SCSB-5402916
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries