Cars in America

Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution

Description

A guest lecture to the university's History Department rehearsing some of the many factors that help explain why media scholar Marshall McLuhan once defined the American as 'a creature on four wheels.' The lecture rehearses a range of social, cultural, technological and social psychological manifestations of the automobile's pervasive presence in American life, past and present.
Period1 Nov 1994
Held atWestern Kentucky University, United States
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • automobiles
  • United States