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Preface

Introduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility

New Perspectives, New Questions

Looking Back: Emergence and Persistence of the Adventure Machine

Extending Adventure: The Car as Possession and Status Symbol

Producing Commodification: Status, Narcissism, and Self-Development

Diversifying Automotive Identities: The Non-Hegemonic Self

New Mobility Studies: Bodily Senses, The Car as Medium, and the Challenge of Representation

The Trouble with Travel Writing: Meandering between Fictionality and Representation

This Study: Sources and Terminology

Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the West

Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890-1945/1950)

Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria

Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities

Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China

Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries

Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa

More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine

The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities?

Part II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism

Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945-1973)

"Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"

A Multimedia Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities

Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures

The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting

Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures

Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture

Flow Interrupted: Crash and the Systemic Aspects of Automobilism

Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s-1970s)

What is 'Layered Development'?

Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India

Conceiving 'Development': Mobilizing the 'Rest'

Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian 'Development'

Constructing 'Circulation': The IRF and the "Development" of Africa

Developmentalism vs. Dependentismo: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle-Class Modernity

Conclusions: Road, Rail, and Development

Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions

Bibliography

Index