Gijs Mom is Associate Professor emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology. His monograph Atlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940, was published by Berghahn Books in 2015. He is a co-editor, with Georgine Clarsen and Mimi Sheller, of the Berghahn Books series "Explorations in Mobility."

"Mom has access to an extraordinarily broad palette of source materials and methods. There is no other monograph in the field of such vast comparative scope." Peter Norton, University of Virginia

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for an Analysis of Global MobilityPart I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the WestChapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890-1945/1950)1.1 Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria1.2 Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities1.3 Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China1.4 Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries1.5 Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa1.6 More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine1.7 The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities?Part II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of AutomobilismChapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945-1973)2.1 Introduction: "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"2.2 A Multi-Media Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities2.3 Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures2.4 The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting2.5 Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures2.6 Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture2.7 Flow Interrupted: Crash and the Systemic Aspects of AutomobilismChapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s-1970s)3.1 Introduction: What is 'Layered Development'?3.2 Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India3.3 Conceiving 'Development': Mobilizing the 'Rest'3.4 Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian 'Development'3.5 Constructing 'Circulation': The IRF and the 'Development' of Africa3.6 Developmentalism vs. Dependentismo: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle Class Modernity3.7 Conclusions: Road, Rail, and DevelopmentLayered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: ConclusionsBibliographyIndex