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• eBook available Published January 2023

  A U-Turn to the Future

  Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

  Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)

  Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.

  Subjects: Mobility Studies Transport Studies Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
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• eBook available Published November 2019

  German Railroads, Jewish Souls

  The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution

  Browning, C. R., Hayes, P. & Hilberg, R.

  This book centers around preeminent Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg’s landmark study of Nazi railways and their roles within the Jewish genocide. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and a comprehensive historical survey from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.

  Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History Transport Studies

  
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• Published July 2023

  Driving Modernity

  Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

  Moraglio, M.

  Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Transport Studies

  
  
• eBook available Published July 2019

  The Devil's Wheels

  Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

  Disko, S.

  During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Transport Studies

  
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• eBook available Published June 2018

  Migration by Boat

  Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

  Mannik, L. (ed)

  Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Transport Studies

  
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• eBook available Published March 2019

  Cycling and Recycling

  Histories of Sustainable Practices

  Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)

  In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
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• eBook available Published October 2017

  Vehicles

  Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

  Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)

  On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.

  Subjects: Transport Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

  
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• Published October 2010

  The Train Journey

  Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

  Gigliotti, S.

  
  

  Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Memory Studies Transport Studies

  
  
• Published October 2010

  Driving Germany

  The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970

  Zeller, T.

  
  

  Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)

  
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• Published March 2006

  The Great Train Race

  Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914

  Mitchell, A.

  
  

  Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

  
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