Stealing Cars
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-1297-9 (ISBN)
There are many who are fascinated by aspects of automobile history, but many more readers enjoy the topic of crime-motives, methods, escaping capture, and of course solving the crime and bringing criminals to justice. Stealing Cars brings together expertise from the history of technology and cultural history as well as city planning and transborder studies to produce a compelling and detailed work that raises questions concerning American priorities and values. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life.
John A. Heitmann is a professor of history at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and former Knapp Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of San Diego. Rebecca H. Morales holds a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a former curator at the San Diego Automotive Museum.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Park at Your Own Risk
1. "Stop, Thief!"
2. Juvenile Delinquents, Hardened Criminals, and Some Ineffectual Technological Solutions (1941–1980)
3. From the Personal Garage to the Surveillance Society
4. Car Theft in the Electronic and Digital Age (1970s–Present)
5. Mexico, the United States, and International Auto Theft
6. The Recent Past
Conclusion: Stealing the American Dream
Appendix: Tables Summarizing Various U.S. Automobile Theft Crime Reports and Surveys, 1924–2010
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.6.2014 |
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Zusatzinfo | 5 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Auto / Motorrad |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4214-1297-7 / 1421412977 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4214-1297-9 / 9781421412979 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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