The World beyond the Windshield
From The Mason Historiographiki
The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+283. $49.95/$22.95.
Summary
Contents:
Introduction (Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller)
1. Driving Cultures and the Meaning of Roads: Some Comparative Examples (Rudy J. Koshar)
2. The Rise and the Decline of the American Parkway (Timothy Davis)
3. The Scene Is Political: Creating Natural and Cultural Landscapes along America's Blue Ridge Parkway (Anne Mitchell Whisnant)
4. "A Feeling Almost beyond Description": Scenic Roads in South Dakota's Custer State Park, 1919-32 (Suzanne Julin)
5. "Neon, Junk, and Ruined Landscape": Competing Visions of America's Roadsides and the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 (Carl A. Zimring)
6. A Rough Modernization: Landscapes and Highways in Twentieth Century Italy (Massimo Moraglio)
7. Building and Rebuilding the Landscape of the Autobahn, 1930-1970 (Thomas Zeller)
8. Socialist Highways?: Appropriating the Autobahn in the German Democratic Republic (Axel Dossman)
9. "Beautified Is a Vile Phrase": The Politics and Aesthetics of Landscaping Roads in Pre- and Postwar Britain (Peter Merriman)
10. Physical and Social Construction of the Capital Beltway (Jeremy L. Korr)
