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  • A World History of Mobility
    Gijs Mom
    As a tool of globalized mobility, the carprovides 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...
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    184,20 €

  • The Evolution of Automotive Technology
    Gijs Mom
    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 familie...
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    133,63 €

  • Globalizing Automobilism
    Gijs Mom / Rüdiger Graf
    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 f...
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    244,43 €

  • Atlantic Automobilism
    Gijs Mom
    'This book is a synthetic work of unique scope. It is the breadth of scope that, above everything else, sets it apart from all other syntheses... Mom has synthesized the scholarship of seven countries, with some relevant inclusion of about seven more...A trained engineer, a credentialed student of literature, and a policy expert with a long association with a national departme...
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    270,36 €