Globalizing Automobilism
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Globalizing Automobilism
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2026-02-01
Globalizing Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-02-01 with Transportation categories.
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.
Globalizing Automobilism
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2026-02
Globalizing Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-02 with History categories.
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.
Pacific Automobilism
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Pacific Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Transportation categories.
The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.
A World History Of Mobility
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2025-08-01
A World History Of Mobility written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-01 with Transportation categories.
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.
Transport Revolution And Travels To Asia 1860s 1920s
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Author : Tomasz Ewertowski
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-02-11
Transport Revolution And Travels To Asia 1860s 1920s written by Tomasz Ewertowski and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the “long” 19th century, a technological revolution occurred, leading to the emergence of new means of transport such as steamships, railways, cars, aeroplanes, bicycles, and rickshaws. This transport revolution not only fundamentally transformed modes of travel and made distant lands more accessible, but it also significantly impacted how travellers experienced the world. The authors of this volume aim to deepen the understanding of the influence of these new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. The approach presented in this volume is inspired by the anthropology of the senses, the sociology of travel, and the cultural history of transport. These methodological frameworks are applied to accounts of travels to, from, and within Asia. This perspective enables a focus on various contexts not visible in Europe, including imperialism, Eurocentric approaches to modernisation, and the reactions of colonised peoples to these developments.
Automotive Empire
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Author : Andrew Denning
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-15
Automotive Empire written by Andrew Denning and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-15 with History categories.
In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole. European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge—the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but revealed weakness as much as it extended power. As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them, automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism itself.
Landscape Economy
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Author : Maria Beatrice Andreucci
language : en
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
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Landscape Economy written by Maria Beatrice Andreucci and has been published by Cuvillier Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This book presents an approach to integrating a landscape economy dimension into higher education. It is addressed in particular to teachers motivated to develop knowledge and competences for sustainable development and social-economic transformation. Landscape economy is not restricted to any specific discipline. We all live and work in and with landscapes and we do that through an economic system. However, we think that this book is of particular interest for educators in the fields of spatial planning, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, economics, business administration, real estate, mobility, agriculture, geography and regional development.
Two Wheels Good
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Author : Jody Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Two Wheels Good written by Jody Rosen and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world “Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.
Modern Travel In World History
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Author : Tom Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-06-28
Modern Travel In World History written by Tom Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with History categories.
Modern Travel in World History uses three themes–technology, mass movements and travelers–to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. This book focuses on both the evolving nature of travel, from land and sea routes in the 1500s to the domination of planes and cars in the modern world, and the important stories of travelers themselves. Taking a global perspective, the text places travel within the larger geopolitical, social, religious and cultural developments throughout history. It emphasizes not only the role of technology innovation in the ways people travel but also how those changes affect social structures and cultural values. Tom Taylor explores the journeys of well-known travelers as well as ordinary people, each with different perspectives, through the lens of gender, social class and cultural background, and considers how fictional travelers define the importance of travel in the modern world. Why people set out on the sojourns they did, what they experienced, who they met and how they understood these cross-cultural encounters are important to not only understanding the travelers themselves but the world they lived in and the world their travels made. Several maps help illustrate important routes and destinations. This book will be of interest to students of world history and literature.
The Evolution Of Automotive Technology
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: SAE International
Release Date : 2023-05-17
The Evolution Of Automotive Technology written by Gijs Mom and has been published by SAE International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The idea of "understanding the present through its history" is based on two insights. First, it helps to know where a technology comes from: what were its predecessors, how did they evolve as a result of the continuous efforts to solve theoretical and practical problems, who were crucial in their emergence, and which cultural differences made them develop into divergent families of artifacts? Second, and closely related to the first insight, how does a certain technology or system fit into its societal context, its culture of mobility, its engineering culture, its culture of car driving, its alternatives, its opponents? Only thus, by studying its prehistory and its socio-cultural context, can we acquire a true 'grasp' of a technology. The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook, Second Edition covers one and a quarter century of the automobile, conceived as a cultural history of its technology, aimed at engineering students and all those who wish to have a concise introduction into the basics of automotive technology and its long-term development. (ISBN:9781468605976 ISBN:9781468605969 ISBN:9781468605983 DOI:10.4271/9781468605976) 2nd Edition.