The life of the automobile : the complete history of the motor car
by Parissien, Steven (Author)
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"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age, historian D... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Pioneers
- Snakes and ladders : Europe between the wars
- The Big Three
- The Age of Gasoline
- The people's war
- Austerity Britain
- Flight of the phoenix
- The Golden Age
- Zenith
- The swinging sixties
- Heroes and villains
- Crisis? What crisis?
- Eastern promise
- Big beasts
- Merge in turn
- Futureworld.