Car Wars

How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities

By: Graeme Davison

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Paperback | 1 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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328 Pages

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WINNER, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Nettie Palmer Prize

SHORTLISTED, NSW Premier's History Awards

SHORTLISTED, The Age Book of the Year

SHORTLISTED, Australian Cultural Studies Book Awards

SHORTLISTED, Victorian Community History Awards

This is the story of how the car changed a society.

Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our consciousness - as an object of desire, a symbol of status, a creator of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores. His is a fascinating journey through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, of mayhem on the road and influence in the world of politics, of communities challenged and the environment threatened, and of an ongoing love affair with a machine.

Car Wars is a history of people, politics, landscapes, conflict, engineering, social movements and the environment. It is a story that is erudite, illuminating and elegantly told.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Industry & Industrial Studies Transport Industries Transportation Road & Motor Vehicles in General Motor Cars in General Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History

Introduction	p. ix
Dream Machines	p. 1
Women Take the Wheel	p. 28
Sex, Speed and Power	p. 48
The New Landscape	p. 74
The Freedom of the Road	p. 111
Blood on the Bitumen	p. 143
Dream Highways	p. 168
The Walls of Jericho	p. 187
The Serpent in the Garden	p. 219
On the Move?	p. 239
Abbreviations	p. 262
Notes	p. 264
Select Bibliography	p. 296
Index	p. 302
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