Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
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The Exuberant Form of Mobility
In the 19 fifties and sixtiesn the united states, but also europe, and to a certain extent, japan something really remarkable happened. The car became more or less tamed for especially the masculine part of the middle classes in the west. But at the same time, you see something else coming up. Based on my analysis, special form of sorces,. which i used also in atlantic odemobilism, that is, ristic sources o novels, poems, songs, games, even. What you see is what i call the absent car.
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