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Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980 (Hardback)
by Gijs Mom
Hardcover, Published 2020 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-461-2, ISBN: 1-78920-461-5






The Evolution of Automotive Technology
A Handbook
by Gijs Mom
Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2015 by Sae International
ISBN-13: 978-0-7680-8027-8, ISBN: 0-7680-8027-4

"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 Gijs Mom, 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 Gijs Mom
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 ..."






The Evolution of Automotive Technology
A Handbook
by Gijs Mom
Hardcover, Published 2023 by Sae International
ISBN-13: 978-1-4686-0596-9, ISBN: 1-4686-0596-8






Mobility in History - Volume 4
by Peter Norton, Liz Millward, Gijs Mom
Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2012 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-986-2, ISBN: 0-85745-986-4

"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 Gijs Mom, 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 ..."






Sound and Safe(1st Edition)
A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
by Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-992569-8, ISBN: 0-19-992569-0

"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 ..."






Mobility in History - Volume 6
by Kyle Shelton, Gijs Mom, Dhan Zunino Singh
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2015 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-814-2, ISBN: 1-78238-814-1

"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 ..."






Mobility in History - Volume 5
by Peter Norton, Gijs Mom, Tomás Errázuriz
Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-362-8, ISBN: 1-78238-362-X

"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 Gijs Mom
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 Gijs Mom
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 Gijs Mom
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 ..."






The Evolution of Automotive Technology
A Handbook
by Gijs Mom
390 Pages, Published 2014 by Sae International
ISBN-13: 978-0-7680-8145-9, ISBN: 0-7680-8145-9

"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 Gijs Mom
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 ..."






Sound and Safe
A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
by Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom
240 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-934992-0, ISBN: 0-19-934992-4

"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, 1970–2015
by Mom, Gijs
Hardcover, Published 2022 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-563-7, ISBN: 1-80073-563-4






Mobility in history. Themes in transport. Yearbook 2011
by Gijs Mom, Peter Norton, Georgine Clarsen, Gordon Prie
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2011 by Alphil Éditions
ISBN-13: 978-2-940235-70-4, ISBN: 2-940235-70-8

"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 ..."






road history. planning, building and use.
by Gijs Mom, Laurent Tissot
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Alphil
ISBN-13: 978-2-940235-16-2, ISBN: 2-940235-16-3

"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 ..."






De Auto, van avonturenmachine naar gebruiksvoorwerp(1st Edition)
by Gijs Mom
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Uitgeverij Kluwer Bv
ISBN-13: 978-90-201-2979-3, ISBN: 90-201-2979-1



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