Gijs Mom, "Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
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The Car Culture of the 20th Century
The western car culture is driven not so much by the upper middle class, i would say, but by the lower middle class and andan working class. This cleft between two cultures emerging in the western world has big repercussions forethe history of mobility latern the century. In this exuberant culture period, especially in america, er, in the sixties and seventies, ar this mission nary idea of spreading the car culture came up as a development for the rest of the world.
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