Atlantic automobilism : the emergence and persistence of the car, 1895-1940 /: the emergence and persistence of the car, 1895-1940. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gijs Mom.
• Authors: Mom, Gijs, 1949-
• Contents: List of Figures; Preface Introduction Explaining the car: Prolegomena for a history of North-Atlantic automobilism Introduction: writing a synthesis Do narratives explain? Constructing a master narrative Developing an explanatory toolbox Conclusions PART I: EMERGENCE (1895 - 1918) Chapter 1. Racing, touring, tinkering: constructing the adventure machine (1895 – 1914/1917) Introduction First phase: emergence and roots of the petrol car (until 1902) Second phase: resistance against elite touring in heavy family cars (1902 – 1908) A first analysis of automotive adventure: the masculine 'conquest of nature' Third phase: the "small capitalist" and the "average man" (1908 until the war) Conclusions Chapter 2. How it feels to be run over: the grammar of early automobile adventure Introduction Driving and writing: Analyzing 'affinities' of touristic and artistic experiences 'Auto-poetics': mainstream authors Literary resistance against the car: Critical voices from the UK Colonialism by car: Gendered travel writing Male violence and aggression: A French-Belgian group of writer-motorists Sub-literary novels: the Williamsons and youth novels Flight Forward: The avant-garde, silent movies, and the celebration of automotive violence Tarkington, Cather and Dreiser: auto-poetics before America's entry into the war Enhanced Adventures: Analysis and conclusions Chapter 3. Driving on aggression: The First World War and the systems approach to the car Introduction Preparing for war (1): clubs, the military, and aggression Preparing for war (2): organizing mobility Mobilization, immobility, remobilization: aggression, violence and atrocities War trophies 1 to 3: the truck, logistics and maintenance War trophy 4: thanatourism and other adventures Ending the war, ending the chapter: conclusions PART II: PERSISTENCE (1918 - 1940) Chapter 4. "Why apologize for pleasure?" Consuming the Car in Boom and Bust Introduction The car as commodity; its spread among the Atlantic middle class European car consumption and 'Americanization': eagerness compared The car as 'necessity': A profile of car use in the Interbellum Migration, mass tourism and the family car Conclusions Chapter 5. Translation and Transition: Re-adjusting the Technology and Culture of Middle Class Family Adventures Introduction Orchestrating Car Technology: Constructing the Closed Automobile The process of Prosthetization: Mutually Adjusting Skills and Technology Multiple Adventures: Thrills, Skills, and Risks Conclusions Chapter 6. Conquest and Domination: Domesticated Violence and the Coldness of Distance Introduction An avant-garde in autopoetic travel experience: the conquest of the 'periphery' Domesticating adventure: the family as collective subject Flows and violence: urban culture and the middleclass family With or without a car: a women's adventure? The ubiquitous car: a spectrum of adventures, adjusted to middleclass taste The cult of cool: becoming cyborg Symbolisms and affinities: avant-garde and popular culture Conclusions Chapter 7. Swarms into flow: The Contested Emergence of the Automobile System Introduction Coping with the car's unreliability: maintenance, repair, and the functional adventure Transnationalizing the local: planning and building national road networks Contested order: spatial planners versus engineers Rescuing automotive adventure: the construction of road safety The battle of the systems: road versus rail and the 'coordination crisis' Conclusions Transcendence and the automotive production of mobility: Conclusions on half a century of North-Atlantic automobilism Introduction Crossing borders: Half a century of North-Atlantic automobilism Crossing boundaries: Adventure, fiction and the explanation of the car's persistence Some closing remarks on methodology and future research
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.46; Automobiles -- North America -- History; Automobile travel -- North America -- History; Automobiles -- Social aspects -- North America
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782383789
• Related ISBNs: 9781782383772
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