Atlantic automobilism : the emergence and persistence of the car, 1895-1940 /
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobile...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Series: | Explorations in mobility ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Explaining the Car: Prolegomena for a History of North-Atlantic Automobilism
- Part I
- Emergence (1895-1918)
- Chapter 1
- Racing, Touring, Tinkering: Constructing the Adventure Machine (1895-1914/1917)
- Chapter 2
- How it Feels to be Run Over: The Grammar of Early Automobile Adventure
- Chapter 3
- Driving on Aggression: The First World War and the Systems Approach to the Car
- Part II
- Persistence (1918-1940)
- Chapter 4
- "Why Apologize for Pleasure?" Consuming the Car in Boom and Bust
- Chapter 5
- Translation and Transition: Readjusting the Technology and Culture of Middle-Class Family Adventures
- Chapter 6
- Redefining Adventure: Domesticated Violence and the Coldness of Distance
- Chapter 7
- Swarms Into Flows: The Contested Emergence of the Automobile System
- Conclusion
- Transcendence and the Automotive Production of Mobility
- Bibliography
- Index.