Vehicle of Desire: Evolution of the Automobile and America's Dependence on Petroleum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439209134)

Vehicle of Desire: Evolution of the Automobile and America's Dependence on Petroleum, by Mahmoud Mimir Musa and William Cecil-Smith, attempts to bring into perspective two hundred years of the American love affair with the car and its impact on U.S. energy dependence. Musa and Cecil-Smith's detailed and thoroughly researched book leaves no stone unturned in its lucid description of how America has come to its current crossroads with oil and the automobile. Musa and Cecil-Smith's Vehicle of Desire: Tracing America's Dependence on Petroleum examines not just the technical aspects of the challenges facing American transportation and our car-culture, they also investigate the cultural and sociological factors that have turned America's love affair with the automobile into a global concern. Written with clarity, authority, and frankness, Vehicle of Desire: Tracing America's Dependence on Petroleum offers new perspectives in tackling one of the pressing issues of our time.

Author: William Cecil-Smith,Mahmoud Nimir Musa
ISBN-10: 1439209138
ISBN-13: 9781439209134
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2008
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d