Atlantic Automobilism ― The Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940

Mom presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of contemporary cultural and historic obsessions with transportation by automobile. The author has organized the main body of his text into two parts. The first part examines the emergence of automobile culture, with chapters focused on racing, touring, and tinkering, the grammar of the early automobile adventure, and both the World War I and the systems approach to the car. The second part examines the persistence of automobile culture, with chapters devoted to the car as a commodity, readjusting the technology and culture of middle-class family adventures, redefining adventure, and a variety of other related subjects. Gijs Mom is a faculty member of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Gijs Mom is an historian of technology and teaches at Eindhoven University of Technology. A literary historian turned automotive engineer, Mom is author of The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age (Johns Hopkins 2004); founder of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M); and editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (Berghahn Books).