Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Preface xii
5. Introduction. Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility 1
6. Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layeredness beyond the West
7. Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890–1945/1950) 57
8. Part II . Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism
9. Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945–1973) 205
10. Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s–1970s) 384
11. Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions 562
12. Bibliography 575
13. Index 639