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Hardcover The Suppression of the Automobile: Skulduggery at the Crossroads Book

ISBN: 031326144X

ISBN13: 9780313261442

The Suppression of the Automobile: Skulduggery at the Crossroads

Contrary to popular belief, the automobile is not a twentieth-century invention. A steam-powered version of this vehicle was in use in Great Britain as early as the 1830s, and both steam- and petroleum-powered automobiles were operating in France and Germany by 1880. This volume traces the world political and economic forces that brought about the suppression of the first steam-powered carriage and the ultimate triumph of the gas-fueled automobile,...

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