Giucci, Guillermo, 1954-

The cultural life of the automobile : roads to modernity / Guillermo Giucci ; translated by Anne Mayagoitia and Debra Nagao. - 1st University of Texas Press ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2012. - xix, 238 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - LLILAS translations from Latin America series . - LLILAS Translations from Latin America series. .

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Henry Ford : from popular inventor to legend -- Fordism and cultural circulation -- The transnational object -- Contradictions of mobility -- Mechanical actors -- Final remarks : kinetic modernity and the automobile.

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Automobiles--Social aspects.
Automobiles--History.
Automobiles--Social aspects--United States.
Automobiles--History.--United States

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