Good Roads and the Automobile in the United States 1880-1929
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Hugill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327 |
| Publication date | 1982-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/214531 |
| OpenAlex | W2315033226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
HE widespread adoption of the automobile by Americans in the early decades of the twentieth century resulted from the development of a major technical and socioeconomic complex during the late nineteenth century. The technical and socioeconomic elements of that complex were equally important. The interplay between them created conditions that allowed the use of the automobile to diffuse from a small economic elite to the rest of American
Business · Transport engineering · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
The Road to the Model T
Driving Modernity
Loveliness but with an Edge
Reexamining the Automobile’s Past
Driving Modernity
American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century
Closing the Atlantic gap
The Sidepath Not Taken
Selling maps, selling highways
The morphogenesis of state highway networks in the United States
The rediscovery of America
Statute Labour on Ontario Township Roads, 1849–1948
Coproduction as a Causal Process
American Roads, Roadside America
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |