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Studies - Sándor Végh: Adoption or Adaptation?: Interpretations of the Automobile

children, education, work habits, and use of leisure time have been radically altered by the adoption of the automobile (.America Adopts 3). It reformed social values, altered the everyday routine of people, and progressively transformed American communities and daily living habits and gave direction to American life. Its most obvious advantage was that it meant a new way of mobility, which was no longer a steady, westward movement driven by "Manifest Destiny," but rather a frequent routine drive between the city and the countryside. If 1 had to summarize the history of American automobility emphasizing its enormous influence on American life I would quote Foster who gave the most compact summary by saying: "Colonial Americans had little choice but to walk to their jobs in the city. Their heirs had almost no alternative but to drive" (35). While a much more bitter voice of one of the most concerned historians concludes, "they completed the rape of the land the frontiersman had begun" (Nye 131). WORKS CITED Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Big Change; America transforms itself 1900-1950. New York: Harper, 1952. . Only Yesterday; an Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. New York: Harper, 1957. Flink, James J. America Adopts the Automobile. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT P, 1970. . The Automobile Age. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT P, 1988. . The Car Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT P, 1975. Foster. Mark S. "The Automobile and the City." The Automobile and the American Culture. Eds. David L. Lewis and Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1988: 24-36. Gammage. Grady Jr. and Stephen L. Jones. "Orgasm in Chrome: The Rise and Fall of the American Tailfin." Journal of Popular Culture VIII: 1 (1974): 132-147. Interrante, Joseph. "The Road to Autopia: The Automobile and the Spatial Transformation of American Culture." The Automobile and the American Culture. Eds. David L. Lewis and Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1988: 89-104. 88