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Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.
Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.
Über den Autor
Kenneth O’Reilly is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska–Anchorage and an instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He is the author of several books, including Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton and “Racial Matters”: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960–1972.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: Power, Culture, Space
Part 1. Before Blacktop
1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes
2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars
3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages
Part 2. Coming to America
4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn
5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun
6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War
7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers
8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century
Conclusion: The Other Black Hole
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Power, Culture, Space
Part 1. Before Blacktop
1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes
2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars
3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages
Part 2. Coming to America
4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn
5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun
6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War
7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers
8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century
Conclusion: The Other Black Hole
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
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Fachbereich: | Technik allgemein |
Genre: | Importe, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
ISBN-13: | 9781496222077 |
ISBN-10: | 1496222075 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | O'Reilly, Kenneth |
Hersteller: | Nebraska |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 238 x 168 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Kenneth O'Reilly |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,654 kg |
Über den Autor
Kenneth O’Reilly is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska–Anchorage and an instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He is the author of several books, including Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton and “Racial Matters”: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960–1972.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: Power, Culture, Space
Part 1. Before Blacktop
1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes
2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars
3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages
Part 2. Coming to America
4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn
5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun
6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War
7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers
8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century
Conclusion: The Other Black Hole
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Power, Culture, Space
Part 1. Before Blacktop
1. Nature: Tar Pits and Asphalt Volcanoes
2. Use: Fired Bricks and Mummy Wars
3. Faith: Asphalt’s Dark Ages
Part 2. Coming to America
4. Triumph: The Blacktop Dawn
5. Duty: Conquering Poverty and Mud, Reich and Rising Sun
6. Crusades: Asphalt in the Cold War
7. Angles: Terrorists, Tricksters, Tea Partiers
8. Overburden: The Oil-Sand Century
Conclusion: The Other Black Hole
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Technik allgemein |
Genre: | Importe, Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
ISBN-13: | 9781496222077 |
ISBN-10: | 1496222075 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | O'Reilly, Kenneth |
Hersteller: | Nebraska |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 238 x 168 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Kenneth O'Reilly |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,654 kg |
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