ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it.
Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and comprising six sections, this volume carries the heritage discourse forward by exploring the complex and sometimes intricate place of automobiles within society. Taken as a whole, this book helps to shape how we think about automobile heritage and considers how that heritage explores a range of cultural, intellectual, emotional, and material elements well outside of the automobile body itself. Most importantly, perhaps, it questions how we might better acknowledge the importance of automotive heritage now and in the future.
The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation is unique in that it juxtaposes theory with practice, academic approaches with practical experience, and recognizes that issues of preservation and conservation belong in a broad context. As such, this volume should be essential reading for both academics and practitioners with an interest in automobiles, cultural heritage, and preservation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Defining automotive heritage from other forms of heritage studies
chapter 2|12 pages
The treatment of historic automobiles and buildings
part II|2 pages
Conservation and preservation of historic vehicles and associated built environments
chapter 6|13 pages
Thinking before restoration
chapter 7|13 pages
Restoring the “unrestored”
chapter 8|16 pages
Made in England
part III|2 pages
The future of the automotive museum
chapter 11|11 pages
Do you wear white gloves when changing a tire?
chapter 13|12 pages
A shared heritage of modernity
part IV|2 pages
The significance of experiencing intangible automotive heritage
chapter 14|10 pages
Sociologizing automotive heritage
chapter 15|18 pages
What moves us
chapter 17|10 pages
Golden boy in a brave new world
part V|2 pages
Car design and heritage identity making
chapter 22|15 pages
Driving patriotism
part VI|2 pages
Sustainable futures for personal mobility