Atlantic Automobilism Emergence and Persistence of the Car 1895 1940 1st Edition by Gijs Mom 1782383786 9781782383789

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ISBN 10: 1782383786
ISBN 13: 9781782383789
Author: Gijs Mom

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 automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.” Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.

Atlantic Automobilism Emergence and Persistence of the Car 1895–1940 1st Table of contents:

Part I — Emergence 
Chapter 1 — Racing, Touring, Tinkering: Constructing the Adventure Machine
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 
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 Fam
Chapter 6 — Redefining Adventure: Domesticated Violence and the Coldness of Distance
Chapter 7 — Swarms Into Flows: The Contested Emergence of the Automobile System

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