Question

In a republic of drivers by Cotten Seiler,

What evidence does Seiler use to support his thesis? Explain how automobility affected Americans; include (and explain and discuss) two direct quotations from the book with the page number for each indicated in parentheses at the end.

Provide one example each of a primary and a secondary source Seiler uses in his research. For primary sources, please identify the writer if available, how the source is identified in the book, and pertinent dates. For secondary sources, be sure to include authors' full names, the full titles of articles (in quotes) and/or books or journals (underlined or italicized), and publication dates. Specify which example is a primary source and which is a secondary source.

Answer 1

Republic of drivers is a famous book which explain the development and effects of mobility to Americans.

Cotton Seiler’s Republic of drivers elevates the effects of auto mobility in American society and economic development. Seiler brilliantly mark and explain the phenomenon “Auto mobility” as a key to US society and culture from 1895 to 1961. In the research, Seiler touches the socio development and individualism in Americans during the industrial revolution.

According to Seiler, the words auto mobility first introduced in 1961 by John Burnham in his article.

The auto mobility has a great effects on American society, the auto mobility provide the freedom and increased the area of serving. People started to move far away and explored the hidden areas of American land. The auto mobility developed the individual thinking and also the concept of individualism fulfil by auto mobility.

Cotton Seiler use various data to give the shape and direction of their research. For primary purpose belongs to some books like “American Individualism” written by Herbert Hoover and “Scientific management project of 1900s” have a progressive effects on the Republic of drivers.

Secondary data use by Cotton Seiler was statistics and official information given by people, government documents and drivers manual.

I believe that much unseen is also here- Walt Whitman is very famous quote from starting and it tells the possibilities to find new things.