A World History of Mobility

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)mobility Gijs Mom draws upon his extensive research into the field to assess the past and present of road cultures and hypothesize their future. Ranging from the impact of climate change to decolonization this volume spotlights how profoundly 'automobilism' impacts our sense of identity and imagination.