Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities

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Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our consciousness - as an object of deisre, a symbol of status, a creator of freedom, a shaper of sexual mores.

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Graeme Davison is among our most innovative historians. His most recent books have been, The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Unforgiving Minute, a history of time and The Use and Abuse of Australian History. In Car Wars he demonstrates yet again his originality as Australia's leading urban historian.