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Contents Foreword by William Cronon ix Acknowledgments xv PrologUe: A Car of One’s Own xix Part i Before the Automobile, 1880–1905 3 1 Roads and Reformers 5 Part ii Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895–1919 35 2 Automotive Pioneers 37 3 Building for Traffic 65 Photo Gallery One 105 Part iii Creating Car Country, 1919–1941 123 4 Motor-Age Geography 125 5 Fueling the Boom 173 6 The Paths Out of Town 201 Photo Gallery Two 228 Part iv New Patterns, New Standards, New Landscapes, 1940–1960 251 7 Suburban Nation 253 ePilogUe: Reaching for the Car Keys 289 Notes 297 Selected Bibliography 379 Index 413 ...

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