Evangelia Kiriatzi and Carl Knappett (eds.), Cambridge University Press 2021, 296 p. The diverse forms of regional connectivity in the ancient world have recently become an important focus for those […]
Elisabeth A. Fraser (ed.), Routledge 2021, 196 p. For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôts of the […]
Ugur Yildiz, Routledge 2021, 154 p. This book explores the asylum journey of non-European asylum applicants who seek asylum in Turkey before resettling in Canada with the aid of the […]
Luke Seaber (UCL) (5:30pm UK time) ‘From this new culture of the air we finally see’: ‘Groundmindedness’ in the 1930s The (stereo)typical view of 1930s ‘airmindedness’ is that it is […]
T2M 19th Annual Conference 2-5 November 2021 NOVA School of Science and Technology/Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, Portugal The conference is currently planned as an online event. Depending […]
Mikiya Koyagi. Stanford University Press 2021, 288 p. “Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran’s two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and […]
Lyubomir Pozharlliev. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage 2023, 348 p. Free – Open Access here The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in […]
Richard DeLuca. Wesleyan University Press 2021, 245 p. Drawing on a wide array of primary material, civil engineer Richard DeLuca examines how land, law, and technology have shaped Connecticut and […]
David Schley. University of Chicago Press 2021, 352 p. Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched […]
Stefan Hohne. MIT Press 2021. 392 p. A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system’s constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. […]
This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the long nineteenth century (c. 1860–1910).Through four […]
Dimitris Dalakoglou and Penelope Harvey (eds), Routledge 2020, 142 p. Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of […]
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, The University of North Carolina Press 2021, 240 p. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, […]
Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus (eds), Brill 2019, 282 p. The Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in […]
Erica Durante, Palgrave 2020, 204 p. Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of […]
Govind Gopakumar, MIT Press 2020, 312 p. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. […]
Luis Villegas Cabredo, Ediciones Universidad de Cantabria 2020, 560 p. Los caminos y puentes son esenciales para la ocupación y transformación del territorio y el desarrollo de los pueblos, al […]
Laure Salanova and Maria Pilar Prieto Martinez (eds.), Oxbow Books 2020, 216 p. Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of […]
Albert Kalonga, Our Knowledge Publishing 2020, 112 p. The issue of human mobility and migration trafficking in the artisanal mining sector in the provinces of South and North Kivu is […]
Erich Karsholt, Strandbergs Forlag 2020, 453 p. I de to første årtier af 1900-tallet skete en revolutionerende udvikling af ikke blot selve bilen, men også omkring fremstillingen, der gik fra […]
