Mobility in history

Reviews and Reflections

Since the publication of its first volume in 2009, the Yearbook of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) has published review articles by 63 scholars working in all six populated continents. Their studies of scholarship cover 20 countries and review themes of historical mobility studies that have not received sufficient attention elsewhere. Readers will find reviews not only of scholarship centering on vehicles such as planes, trains and automobiles, but also on less prominent topics in mobility history, such as pedestrians, bicyclists, international mobility policy, gender and mobility, carpooling, mobility and social exclusion, and tourism. The present volume includes articles reviewing scholarship from four countries not represented in previous Yearbooks (Colombia, France, Portugal and Sweden) and a new thematic article (on car sounds). Following a precedent established last year, this volume offers readers a close reflection on a classic study in mobility history, Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey (1977). Readers can also get an inside look at the state of the art of mobility history from the unique perspective of one of its central figures, Gijs Mom.

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Titre: Mobility in history. Reviews and Reflections
Editeur: Alphil PUS
Auteur: Mom Gijs / Norton Peter / Millward Liz / Flonneau Mathieu
Type de livre: Groupement de textes
Collection: Histoire des transports du tourisme et du voyage
Numéro: 101
Langue: Anglais
Année de parution: 2011
ISBN Papier: 978-2-940235-89-6
ISBN E-Pub: 978-2-940489-74-9
ISBN PDF: 978-2-940489-73-2
Format: 14.8x22.5x1
Nb de pages: 168
Avec: Tableaux - graphiques - illustrations

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EAN13: 9782940235896

Collection Histoire des transports du tourisme et du voyage

101

168 p.

ISBN 978-2-940235-89-6

Gijs Mom is Programme Director for Mobility History within the Foundation for the History of Technology, at Eindhoven University of Technology, and he teaches at this university on subjects related to the history of technology, innovation and design.

He is editor of The Journal of Transport History. In November 2003 he co-founded the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) of which he was nominated President. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Centre for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) in Eindhoven.

Norton Peter

Peter Norton : is assistant professor in the history of technology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Fighting Traffic : The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (MIT Press, 2008), and of "Street Rivals : Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street" (Technology and Culture, 2007), which won the Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.

Millward Liz

Liz Millward : is associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her interests are in the history and geography of women's spaces, with a particular focus on the role of transportation and mobility in the development and spread of feminist community.

Millward is the author of Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008).

Flonneau Mathieu

Mathieu Flonneau : is assistant professor of contemporary history at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, IRICE-CRHI. He is director of studies in the Erasmus- Mundus program TPTI and teaches mobility history at Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris. He is editor of Cultures Mobiles, a book series published by Descartes et Cie, and is involved in the research group P2M : "Passé Présent Mobilité" (Past & Present Mobility).