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About this book
As a tool of globalized mobility, the car provides a useful barometer for charting the global development of socio-cultural, economic, technical, and political modernization. Shaped by prevailing gender and racial norms and popularized by a Western-driven car culture, it is a commodity whose access and use embodies wider inequalities. In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom draws upon his extensive research into the field to assess the past and present of road cultures, and hypothesize their future. Ranging from the impact of climate change to decolonization, this volume spotlights how profoundly 'automobilism' impacts our sense of identity and imagination.
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1Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Making World Mobility History
- Chapter 1. Imperialist and Colonialist Mobilities, 1850–1918
- Chapter 2. Migratory and Other Subversive Mobilities, 1920–1940
- Chapter 3. Decolonization, Development, and the Globalization of the Car Society, 1940s–1970s
- Chapter 4. The Global Shift to Pacific Automobilism and the Epidemiology of the Car, 1970s–2010s
- Chapter 5. The End of the Car and Its Alternatives
- Conclusion. Past to Future, Atlantic to Pacific
- Annotated Canon: Introducing Mobility History
- Bibliography
- Index