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Introduction : explaining the car : prolegomena for a history of North-Atlantic automobilism
pt. I. Emergence (1895-1918)
1. Racing, touring, tinkering : constructing the adventure machine (1895-1914/1917)
First phase : emergence and roots of the petrol car (until 1902)
Second phase : resistance against elite touring in heavy family cars (1902-1908)
A first analysis of automotive adventure : the masculine "conquest of nature"
Third phase : the "small capitalist" and the "average man" (1908 until the War)
2. How it feels to be run over : the grammar of early automobile adventure
Driving and writing : analyzing affinities of touristic and artistic experiences
Autopoetics : mainstream authors
the "real unreality of things" : critical voices from the United Kingdom
Colonialism by car : gendered travel writing
Male violence and aggression : a French-Belgian group of writer-motorists
Subliterary novels : the Williamsons and youth novels
Flight forward : the Avant-Garde, silent movies, and the celebration of automotive violence
Tarkington, Cather, and Dreiser : autopoetics before America's entry into the War
3. Driving on aggression : the First World War and the systems approach to the car
Preparing for war : clubs, the military and aggression
Preparing for war : organizing mobility
Mobilization, immobility, remobilization : aggression, violence, and atrocities
War trophies : the truck, logistics, and maintenance
War trophies : Thanatourism and other adventures
pt. II. Persistence (1918-1940)
4. "Why apologize for pleasure?" : consuming the car in boom and bust
The car as commodity : its spread among the Atlantic middle class
European car consumption and "Americanization" : eagerness compared
The car as necessity : a profile of car use in the Interbellum
Testing a different approach : migration, mass tourism, and the family car
5. Translation and transition : readjusting the technology and culture of middle-class family adventures
Orchestrating car technology : constructing the closed automobile
The process of prosthetization : mutually adjusting skills and technology
Multiple adventures : thrills, skills, and risks
6. Redefining adventure : domesticated violence and the coldness of distance
An Avant-Garde in autopoetic travel experience : the conquest of the "periphery"
Domesticating adventure : the family as collective subject, and speed
Flows and violence : urban culture and the middle-class family
With or without a car : a women's adventure?
The ubiquitous car : a spectrum of adventures, adjusted to middle-class taste
The cult of cool : becoming cyborg
Symbolisms and affinities : Avant-Garde and popular culture
7. Swarms into flows : the contested emergence of the automobile system
Coping with car's unreliability : maintenance, repair, and the functional adventure
Transnationalizing the local : planning and building national road networks
Contested order : spatial planners versus engineers
Rescuing automotive adventure : the construction of road safety
The battle of the systems : road versus rail and the coordination crisisconclusionusin : transcendence and the automotive production of mobility
Crossing borders : half a century of North-Atlantic automobilism
Crossing boundaries : adventure, fiction, and the explanation of the car's persistence.
pt. I. Emergence (1895-1918)
1. Racing, touring, tinkering : constructing the adventure machine (1895-1914/1917)
First phase : emergence and roots of the petrol car (until 1902)
Second phase : resistance against elite touring in heavy family cars (1902-1908)
A first analysis of automotive adventure : the masculine "conquest of nature"
Third phase : the "small capitalist" and the "average man" (1908 until the War)
2. How it feels to be run over : the grammar of early automobile adventure
Driving and writing : analyzing affinities of touristic and artistic experiences
Autopoetics : mainstream authors
the "real unreality of things" : critical voices from the United Kingdom
Colonialism by car : gendered travel writing
Male violence and aggression : a French-Belgian group of writer-motorists
Subliterary novels : the Williamsons and youth novels
Flight forward : the Avant-Garde, silent movies, and the celebration of automotive violence
Tarkington, Cather, and Dreiser : autopoetics before America's entry into the War
3. Driving on aggression : the First World War and the systems approach to the car
Preparing for war : clubs, the military and aggression
Preparing for war : organizing mobility
Mobilization, immobility, remobilization : aggression, violence, and atrocities
War trophies : the truck, logistics, and maintenance
War trophies : Thanatourism and other adventures
pt. II. Persistence (1918-1940)
4. "Why apologize for pleasure?" : consuming the car in boom and bust
The car as commodity : its spread among the Atlantic middle class
European car consumption and "Americanization" : eagerness compared
The car as necessity : a profile of car use in the Interbellum
Testing a different approach : migration, mass tourism, and the family car
5. Translation and transition : readjusting the technology and culture of middle-class family adventures
Orchestrating car technology : constructing the closed automobile
The process of prosthetization : mutually adjusting skills and technology
Multiple adventures : thrills, skills, and risks
6. Redefining adventure : domesticated violence and the coldness of distance
An Avant-Garde in autopoetic travel experience : the conquest of the "periphery"
Domesticating adventure : the family as collective subject, and speed
Flows and violence : urban culture and the middle-class family
With or without a car : a women's adventure?
The ubiquitous car : a spectrum of adventures, adjusted to middle-class taste
The cult of cool : becoming cyborg
Symbolisms and affinities : Avant-Garde and popular culture
7. Swarms into flows : the contested emergence of the automobile system
Coping with car's unreliability : maintenance, repair, and the functional adventure
Transnationalizing the local : planning and building national road networks
Contested order : spatial planners versus engineers
Rescuing automotive adventure : the construction of road safety
The battle of the systems : road versus rail and the coordination crisisconclusionusin : transcendence and the automotive production of mobility
Crossing borders : half a century of North-Atlantic automobilism
Crossing boundaries : adventure, fiction, and the explanation of the car's persistence.