Gijs Mom / Gordon Pirie / Laurent Tissot (eds):

Mobility in History. The State of the Art in the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

For decades scholars in diverse fields have examined problems in the history of mobility. Their diversity was their strength but also their limitation, as disciplinary boundaries impeded the exchange of ideas that lets scholarship flourish. Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a free-trade zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in a now-flourishing field. Now, with the publication of its first yearbook, T2M has surveyed these gains in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field. Here, twenty-seven scholars in the history of mobility, from sixteen countries and five continents, present synopses of recent research. Besides reviews of research in thirteen countries, contributions also include thematic reviews relating mobility to the environment, automobile fetishism, race, gender, and other transnational themes. All in all, more than sixty scholars within and beyond T2M cooperated in this project, making it a truly collective work.

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I  The State of the Art

Gijs Mom, Colin Divall and Peter Lyth, Towards a Paradigm Shift? A decade of Transport and Mobility History Vincent Kaufmann, Mobility: Trajectory of a Concept in the Social Sciences Tom McCarthy, A Natural Intersection: A Survey of Historical Work on Mobility and the Environment David Gartman, The History and Future of Automotive Fetishism

II  Continents and Countries

Peter Norton, Urban Mobility without Wheels: A Historiographical Review of Pedestrianism Michael Fein, A Political Turn: Highways and Mass Transit in American Mobility Georgine Clarsen, Mobility in Australia: Unsettling the Settled Gordon Pirie, African Mobility History: Recent Texts on Past Passages Liz Millward, Knitting a Nation Together: Three Themes in Canadian Mobility History Nanny Kim, Transport in China before the Industrial Age: Comparative Research Issues Tracy Nichols Busch, From the Scythians to the Soviets: An Evaluation of Russian Mobility History Rodrigo Booth and Melina Piglia, New Developments in a Neglected Field: Transport and Mobility in Latin American Recent Historiography Massimo Moraglio, Niche Development or Wider Renaissance?  Italian Mobility History Growth in the Last Decade Hans Buiter, National and Transnational Transport History: Trends in Recent Dutch Research Donald Weber, All Is Politics: Fifty Years of Mobility History in Belgium Hans-Ulrich Schiedt, Swiss Traffic History: A Research Report Bernd Kreuzer, Still Focussing on the Railway: Transport and Mobility History in Austria Aristotle Tympas and Irene Anastasiadou, An Indistinct Constellation: Mobility History in Greece Emiliya Karaboeva, Bulgarian State of the Art: More Transport Than Mobility History

III  Topics

Christian Henrich-Franke, European Mobility Policy: A Topic to Be Discovered Cotton Seiler, Mobilizing Race, Racializing Mobility: Writing Race into Mobility Studies Georgine Clarsen, Gender and Mobility: Historicizing the Terms Arnaud Passalacqua, Public Transport: At the Crossroads of Urban History and the History of Mobility Valentina Fava, Production versus Mobility?  New Perspectives for an Old Dilemma

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2009, 264 pages, ISBN: 978-2-940235-52-0

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