9781501329333: Traffic: Object Lessons
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ISBN 10: 1501329332 ISBN 13: 9781501329333
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic, reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flow of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines.

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Paul Josephson is Professor of History at Colby College, USA. He is the author of twelve books, including Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), The Conquest of the Russian Arctic (Harvard University Press, 2014), Lenin's Laureate: A Life in Communist Science (MIT Press, 2010), Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism Under Socialism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), and Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty and the Small Bore Engine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic. Exploring ways to reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flows of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines, Paul Josephson considers the history of traffic, and the political and other controversies that frame the belated technological efforts to calm it. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501329332
ISBN 13 
9781501329333
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
EDITIONS GALLIMARD
ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it

Via Verdi, 8.
Assago Milano
20090
Italien

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