Twitchell Winnebago Nation

The RV in American Culture
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53765-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

The popular critic takes to the road to explore the allure of the nomadic life in a house on wheels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Twitchell, James B.

Twitchell, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Automobilindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Thoreau at $4.00 a Gallon: The Peculiar Place of the RV in American Culture
2. At Home on the Road: A Fleeting History of the American Dream in RVs
3. Wheel Escape: Consumption Communities on the Road
4. Park It: From Kampgrounds of America to the Slabs
5. The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and. of the RV in America
Acknowledgments
Index

Leseproben

Read "Thoreau at 29¢ $4.00 a Gallon," the first chapter to Winnebago Nation

Über Autor(innen)

James B. Twitchell taught English and advertising at the University of Florida for many years and is the author of Adcult USA, Lead Us Into Temptation, and Where Men Hide. He has traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboard in a small RV with his wife and driven across the Deep South, up to Newfoundland, and all the way to Alaska.