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Car wars : how the car won our hearts and conquered our cities Graeme Davison Published by Allen & Unwin (2004) |
Book Description
Car Wars recounts the battles cars have inspired throughout Melbourne's history and examines their influence on the development of Melbourne. Graeme Davison is primarily interested in the car as an inspirational, freedom-giving object, but is equally interested in themes of gender, sexuality and wider cultural notions of "Americanisation" and individualism. Car Wars provides a fascinating journey of the impact and power of the car as a shaper of everyday life, human community and landscapes.
About the Author
Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of
Historical Studies at Monash University. Professor Davison was a Rhodes Scholar
(1964) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities.
Professor Davison research interest is in the history of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States.
He is the author or co-author of over 15 books including The Rise and Fall of Marvellous
Melbourne(1978), The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time
(1993) and The use and abuse of Australian history (2000).
Professor Graeme Davison has been awarded the 2004 Nettie Palmer Prize for
non-fiction as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Car Wars.
Car Wars was also short listed for the 2004 NSW Premier's History
Award for the Australian History Prize and the 2004 Age Book of the Year Award
in the Non-fiction category.
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