Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 19001980

Mom, Gijs Gijs Mom,

ISBN 10: 1836953895 / ISBN 13: 9781836953890

Published by Berghahn Books -, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 19001980
• Publisher: Berghahn Books -
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836953895
• ISBN 13: 9781836953890
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.”