Gijs Mom / (eds):

Mobility in History. Themes in Transport.

In its second Yearbook, the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) has brought together 28 scholars from eleven countries on four continents to review recent scholarship on mobility in history. Besides reviews of research in diverse countries, this edition brings attention to underserved subdisciplines and topics, such as gender and mobility, maritime history, aeromobility, carpooling, and bicycles. This year, the Yearbook also features a retrospective review of John McKay’s classic Tramways and Trolleys (1976) in a section that includes an interview with the author and a collection of historical review essays on trams in five countries. True to T2M’s interdisciplinary spirit, the review essays go beyond transportation modes and artifacts to include the broader social systems in which mobility figures.

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I  Themes in Transport

Garth Wilson, The Mobility Paradigm and Maritime History Georgine Clarsen, Automobility “South of the West”: Toward a Global Conversation

II  Revisiting the Classics

Clay McShane, Foreword
Ruud Filarski, “A Giant Spider Web, Hanging Full of Dead Flies”? The Rise of the Tram, 1870-1910
Arnaud Passalacqua, Resident Alien: France’s Ambivalent Relationship to the Tramway before 1914
Clay McShane, Distinctive but Not Exceptional: Innovation in Urban Transport in the United States, 1832-1902
Cédric Humair, Following the Sister Republic: Urban Public Transport in Switzerland, 1870-1910
Barbara Schmucki, Toward New Routes in Tramway History
John P. McKay, interview (by Clay McShane)

III  Countries and Continents

Liz Millward, One Hundred Years of Flight in Canada: Time for a Change?
Craig Horner and Julian Greaves, Mobility Spotting: Running off the Rails in the Transport History of the United Kingdom
Christopher Kopper and Heike Wolter, Mobility History in Germany: One Field, Many Perspectives
Etienne Faugier, Rural Transportation: From a Wrong Start to an Uncertain Future?
Javier Vidal, Fast Growth and Missed Opportunities: Spain’s Transport and Mobility History
Guillermo Guajardo-Soto, Mobility History in Modern Mexico: An Uneven Landscape
Tomás Errázuriz, Looking for Latin American Mobility History

IV  Topics and Themes

Frances Steel, Maritime Mobilities in Pacific History: Towards a Scholarship of Betweenness
Liz Millward, The View from Above: A Year of Aeromobility History
Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin, The Fabulous Story of Carpooling: From a Spontaneous, Ephemeral Practice to a Sustainable Means of Transport
Regina Witter and Hanja-Niriana Maksim, Mobility and Social Exclusion: The Need of a Comprehensive Research Approach
Charissa Terranova, The Automobile in Art: From Fetish Object of Delectation to Prosthetic Extension in an Ecological Matrix
Mark Keck-Szajbel and Heike Wolter, A Contradiction in Terms? The Historiography of East Bloc Tourism
Margaret Walsh, Still a Long Way to Travel: Gender and History Revisited
Manuel Stoffers, Harry Oosterhuis and Peter Cox, Bicycle History As Transport History: The Cultural Turn
Steve Koerner, The Rediscovery of the Motorcycle in History

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2010, 292 pages, ISBN: 978-2-940235-70-4

Free for members of T2M. Single copies can be bought from the publisher Editions Alphil.