Globalizing Automobilism : : Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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