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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[Mom presents two] distinct yet well-integrated perspectives, that of the historical and the methodological craftsman. The effective nexus of those perspectives allows Mom to tell a story too often overlooked and even blatantly ignored by Western-centric texts on the same subject. Despite its considerable length, this text is a dense work of research best suited for academics who are serious about mobility studies and\/or non-Western 20th-century (or postcolonial) history.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“… a nuanced and complex account of the histories of mobility… [Some chapters] are real gems for the outline of a diverse world often invisible in mobility literature, as well as for a detailed anatomy of motorization and development practices.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• TSEG- The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Peter Norton\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t     New Perspectives, New Questions\u003cbr\u003e \t     Looking Back: Emergence and Persistence of the Adventure Machine\u003cbr\u003e \t     Extending Adventure: The Car as Possession and Status Symbol\u003cbr\u003e \t     Producing Commodification: Status, Narcissism, and Self-Development\u003cbr\u003e \t     Diversifying Automotive Identities: The Non-Hegemonic Self\u003cbr\u003e \t     New Mobility Studies: Bodily Senses, The Car as Medium, and the Challenge of Representation\u003cbr\u003e \t     The Trouble with Travel Writing: Meandering between Fictionality and Representation\u003cbr\u003e \t     This Study: Sources and Terminology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the West\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890–1945\/1950)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t     Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria\u003cbr\u003e \t     Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities\u003cbr\u003e \t     Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China\u003cbr\u003e \t     Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries\u003cbr\u003e \t     Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t     More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine\u003cbr\u003e \t     The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945–1973)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t     “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan”\u003cbr\u003e \t     A Multimedia Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities\u003cbr\u003e \t     Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures\u003cbr\u003e \t     The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting\u003cbr\u003e \t     Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures\u003cbr\u003e \t     Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t     Flow Interrupted: \u003cem\u003eCrash\u003c\/em\u003e and the Systemic Aspects of Automobilism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s–1970s)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t     What is ‘Layered Development’?\u003cbr\u003e \t     Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India\u003cbr\u003e \t     Conceiving ‘Development’: Mobilizing the ‘Rest’\u003cbr\u003e \t     Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian ‘Development’\u003cbr\u003e \t     Constructing ‘Circulation’: The IRF and the \"Development\" of Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t     Developmentalism vs. \u003cem\u003eDependentismo\u003c\/em\u003e: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle-Class Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \t     Conclusions: Road, Rail, and Development\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eLayered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042556051799,"sku":"9781789204612","price":125.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/globalizing-automobilism-exuberance-and-the-emergence-of-layered-mobility-1900-1980-9781789204612","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}