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Simone, Daniel J.

Racing, region, and the environment: A history of American motorsports.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Racing, region, and the environment: A history of American motorsports.
Author:	Simone, Daniel J.
Description:	244 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4827.
Notes:	Adviser: Jack E. Davis.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-12A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3385997
ISBN:	9781109519297

Racing, region, and the environment: A history of American motorsports.
Simone, Daniel J.

Racing, region, and the environment: A history of American motorsports. - 244 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4827.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2009.

This dissertation is a comprehensive environmental study of motorsports and defines, discusses, and analyzes the reciprocal relationship between auto racing on one hand and the cultural, regional, ecological, and geographic environments on the other. It explains how environmental issues and geographic dimensions served as catalysts for continuities and discontinuities in the course of local, regional, and national motorsports development by exploring how track owners, promoters, drivers, and motorsports entities organized themselves around the environment.

ISBN: 9781109519297Subjects--Topical Terms:

212533
History, United States.

Racing, region, and the environment: A history of American motorsports.
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520 $a This study provides a better understanding of regional motorsports development by studying the relationship between auto racing and topography. It investigates how environmental issues and questions over public and private space affected motorsports and devotes specific attention to explaining how suburbanization impinged on motorsports and influenced speedway construction and demolition. This dissertation also outlines the degree in which environmental and ecological concerns have affected auto racing in selected areas of the country. Finally, this study shows how some auto racing entities have embraced or have been forced to assume specific responsibility for the environment by mandating alternative fuels and setting eco-friendly regulations.
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