Globalizing automobilism : exuberance and the emergence of layered mobility, 1900-1980

Globalizing automobilism : exuberance and the emergence of layered mobility, 1900-1980 /

"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 f...

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Main Author: Mom, Gijs, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Automobiles > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Transportation, Automotive > History > 20th century.
Globalization > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History
Automobiles > Social aspects
Globalization > Social aspects
Transportation, Automotive
History
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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

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