Automobiles
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From  NEW! A Future of Cars and CanadaFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this concluding chapter, Anastakis offers an overview of how automobiles have fundamentally shaped Canadian society, economy, and landscapes. He deals with how Canada’s infrastructure … | Dimitry Anastakis | 5 | 2026 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Campus Parking and the Car as a Third PlaceAsphalt Grievances and Commuter Sociability From: Degrees of Failure |
Using the examples of three Canadian schools, this chapter demonstrates how issues concerning the automobile, especially both the lack and expansion of on-campus parking, have become major policy … | Randle W. Nelsen | 13 | 2017 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Canada’s New Carscape:Town and Country Remade From: Car Nation |
1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Canada’s New Carscape: Town and Country RemadeFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the impact of autos and Canadian transport networks, building new highways and road systems. He examines how urban development patterns modified to … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation |
1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis covers the 1930s and the Second World War period. Topics include the auto and the 1930s Depression, war production by auto manufacturers, union organizing in the war … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
Car NationAn Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel |
Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by … | 96 | View | ||
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NEW! Car Nation CanadaAn illustrated history |
A full-colour illustrated history of cars and car-makers, with images of Canadian cars old and new, plus car company ads and promotional images. Canadians have been building cars from the … | Dimitry Anastakis | 106 | 2026 | View |
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From NEW! Cars, Canadians, and the Twenty-First CenturyFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the history of the Canadian auto sector from its historic peaks in 2000-2026. He highlights how shifting trade rules challenged the integrated … | Dimitry Anastakis | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
 Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk |
Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current … | James Wilt | 306 | 2020 | View |
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From Driving into the World, from Oil Crisis to TodayFrom: Car Nation |
1973 – 2005. Looks at the oil shock of 1973, looks at the car industries involvement in nationalism, continentialism, and globalization, the development of fuel economy & emissions … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Driving into the World: From the Oil Crisis to the MilleniumFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes the history of Canada’s auto industry from early 1970s to 2000. He covers the history of key manufacturing firms, including incoming Japanese and Swedish … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From IntroductionMachines, People, Places and a World Transformed From: Car Nation |
Examines the car as a technology that changed the world as we know it. Outlines that the car became a fulcrum for human interaction. Looks at the American Influence on the Canadian Car Industry. … | Dimitry Anastakis | 9 | 2008 | $0.90 Add |
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From King Car:The Automobile’s Golden Age From: Car Nation |
1945-1973. Analyzes the Great post-war boom in the car industry and argues that the automobile emblems of the era They represented a new industrial might, a new ethos of consumption and a new … | Dimitry Anastakis | 19 | 2008 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! King Car: The Automobile’s GoldenFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis describes how the automotive industry was key in defining post-1945 Canadian economic growth and prosperity. Union successes in wage negotiations built a well-paid work … | Dimitry Anastakis | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Machines, People, Places and a World TransformedFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this introductory chapter, Anastakis offers an overview of the history of autos, auto manufaturing and car culture in Canada. | Dimitry Anastakis | 6 | 2026 | $0.60 Add |
