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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789204629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/320904 23
LOC classification:
  • HE5611
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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