Globalizing Automobilism Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980 (Hardback) by GijsMom Hardcover, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-461-2, ISBN: 1-78920-461-5
"This book covers one and a quarter century of the automobile, conceived as a cultural history of its technology, aimed at engineering students and all those who wish to have a concise introduction into the basics of automotive technology and its long-term development. Its approach is systemic and includes the behaviour of drivers, producers, nonusers, victims, and other ""stakeholders"" as well as the discourse around mobility. Nowadays ..."
The Electric Vehicle(Reprint) Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age by GijsMom, Jenny Wormer Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0970-2, ISBN: 1-4214-0970-4
"Winner of the Engineer-Historian Award from the International History and Heritage Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award given by the Society of Automotive HistoriansRecent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopoliti ..."
The Electric Vehicle Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age by GijsMom Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2004 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7138-2, ISBN: 0-8018-7138-7
"Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car -- neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity -- has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent a ..."
"Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook, "Mobility in History," T2M surveys these developments in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field, presenting synopses of recent research, international rev ..."
Atlantic Automobilism(1st Edition) The Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940 (Explorations in Mobility) by GijsMom, Not Available Hardcover, 768 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-377-2, ISBN: 1-78238-377-8
""This book is a synthetic work of unique scope. It is the breadth of scope that, above everything else, sets it apart from all other syntheses... Mom has synthesized the scholarship of seven countries, with some relevant inclusion of about seven more...A trained engineer, a credentialed student of literature, and a policy expert with a long association with a national department of transportation, [have equipped him with] a breadth of ..."
"Do you enjoy listening to music while driving? Do you find radio traffic information indispensable? Do you appreciate the moments of your drive in which you can listen to or sing along with whatever you like? This book shows how we created auditory privacy in cars, making them feel sound and safe, even though automobiles were highly noisy things at the beginning of the twentieth century. It explains how engineers in the automotive indus ..."
"Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook, Mobility in History, T2M surveys these developments in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field, presenting synopses of recent research, international revie ..."
"Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook, Mobility in History, T2M surveys these developments in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field, presenting synopses of recent research, international revie ..."
Pacific Automobilism Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015 by GijsMom 1,002 Pages, Published 2022 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-564-4, ISBN: 1-80073-564-2
"... Chan, Annie Hau-nung. “Middle-Class Formation and Consumption in Hong Kong,” in: Chua Beng-Huat (ed.), Consumption in Asia; Lifestyles and Identities (London/New York: Routledge, 2000) (The New Rich in Asia Series, ed.: Richard Robison) ..."
Globalizing Automobilism Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 by GijsMom 856 Pages, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-462-9, ISBN: 1-78920-462-3
"... youth); Michalis Nikolakakis, “Representations and Social Practices of
Alternative Tourists in Postwar Greece to the End of the Greek Military Junta,”
Journal of Tourism History 7, nos. 1–2 (2015): 5 (invasion), 6 (war), 11 (hordes);
Kraushaar, ..."
Explorations in Mobility Ser. Atlantic Automobilism : The Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940 by GijsMom 768 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-378-9, ISBN: 1-78238-378-6
"tendencies already present during the first phase, a separate chapter has been
dedicated to this inter-phase (chapter ... Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884),
quoted in Beverley Southgate, History Meets Fiction (London: Pearson Education
, 2009), ... In this book I use single quotation marks to emphasize the typical
character of a term or phrase not directly derived ... José C. Moya, “Modernization
, Modernity, and the Trans/for ..."
"Lynwood Bryant, “The Development of the Diesel Engine,” Technology and Culture 17 No. 3 (July 1976), 432–446. 12-9. C. Lyle Cummins, Internal Fire (Lake Oswego, Oregon: Carnot Press, 1976). 12-10. Horst O. Hardenberg, The Middle Ages of ..."
The Electric Vehicle Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age by GijsMom 440 Pages, Published 2013 by Jhu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1268-9, ISBN: 1-4214-1268-3
"Scholz (who was to get his doctorate degree on an analysis of the propulsion
problems for firefighting vehicles two years later) felt that Riedler's remarks
supported him against “the men of practice.” In their own tests, these adversaries
were often not able to compare the alternatives because the cost calculations
were usually contrasted with a hypothetical horse economy for the benefit of the
local authorities. Thus, for this co ..."
"A History of Listening Behind the Wheel Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan
Krebs, Gijs Mom. 26. The Secret Life of the Motorway, Part II, August 22, 2007,
BBC DVD (courtesy Andy O'dwyer, BBC Archives). Italics added by the authors, ..."
Pacific Automobilism Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970â2015 by Mom, Gijs Hardcover, Published 2022 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-563-7, ISBN: 1-80073-563-4
"In its second Yearbook, the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) has brought together 28 scholars from eleven countries on four continents to review recent scholarship on mobility in history.
Besides reviews of research in diverse countries, this edition brings attention to underserved subdisciplines and topics, such as gender and mobility, maritime history, aeromobility, carpooling, and bi ..."
"This collection of essays on 'Road History' is the result of a workshop co-organized by the Mobility History Group within the Tensions of Europe research program and the COST 340 network, both sponsored by European research funds. They reflect the increasing interest among both historians of technology and historians of transport, mobility and tourism in national and transnational road construction history as a part of understanding wid ..."