The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage Culture and Preservation

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.