Globalizing Automobilism : : Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 / / Gijs Mom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Mom, Gijs,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction. Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility --; Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layeredness beyond the West --; Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890–1945/1950) --; Part II . Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism --; Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945–1973) --; Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s–1970s) --; Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789204629; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789204629?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gijs Mom.

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.