This much needed book is the first to provide a comprehensive history of the profession and aesthetics of American automobile design. The author reveals how the

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary con

Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. T

Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period.

The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other