جهانی‌سازی اتومبیل‌داری: شادابی و ظهور تحرک لایه‌ای، ۱۹۰۰–۱۹۸۰

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 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher