Globalizing Automobilism

Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980

Globalizing Automobilism
Gijs Mom
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 856pg
30 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789204612
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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.
"Mom has access to an extraordinarily broad palette of source materials and methods. There is no other monograph in the field of such vast comparative scope." Peter Norton, University of Virginia
Gijs Mom is Associate Professor emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology. His monograph Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940, was published by Berghahn Books in 2015. He is a co-editor, with Georgine Clarsen and Mimi Sheller, of the Berghahn Books series "Explorations in Mobility."
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ISBN-13: 9781789204612
Published: 30 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 856

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