| Car Country: An Environmental History Subjects: Automobiles -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History; Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Transportation Automotive -- United States -- History; Urban transportation -- United States -- History; City planning -- United; For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country--a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car. Christopher W. Wells is associate professor of environmental history at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. |