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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mom, Gijs, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobiles--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Automobiles.

Transportation, Automotive--History--20th century.

Transportation, Automotive.

Globalization--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2020.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-813-0

1-78920-462-3

OCLC:

1150798372