List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Questioning the Car: Prolegomena for a Historical Analysis of Global Mobility New Perspectives, New Questions Looking Back: Emergence and Persistence of the Adventure Machine Extending Adventure: The Car as Possession and Status Symbol Producing Commodification: Status, Narcissism, and Self-Development Diversifying Automotive Identities: The Non-Hegemonic Self New Mobility Studies: Bodily Senses, The Car as Medium, and the Challenge of Representation The Trouble with Travel Writing: Meandering between Fictionality and Representation This Study: Sources and Terminology Part I. Emergence and Persistence (Again): The Shaping of Mobility Layerdness beyond the West Chapter 1. Modernizing without Automobilization: Subverting and Subalternizing Mobility History (1890-1945/1950) Imperialist Mobilities: Japan and the Modernization of Manchuria Urban Mobilities: The Rickshaw and the Motorization of Asian Cities Between Long March and Long-Haul: Rail and Road Network Building in China Dual Networks of Rails and Roads: The Modal Configuration in Other Asian Countries Migration, Colonialism and the Struggle between Rail and Road: The Case of Africa More than Modern: Constructing a Latin American Adventure Machine The Rest and the West: Subversive and Subaltern Mobilities? Part II: Exuberance, with a Twist: Spreading the Gospel of Automobilism Chapter 2. Fragmenting Automotive Adventure: Western Exuberant Automobilism and Middle-Class Guilt (1945-1973) "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" A Multimedia Feast: Folk, Beat, Rock and Other Mobilities Motorizing the Worker: Fragmentation and Convergence of Western Car Cultures The Attack on Public Transport: Hegemonic Car Cultures in a Cold War Setting Experiencing the Car in a Fragmented Culture: Shifts in Autopoetic Adventures Songs and Movies: Rejuvenating the Adventure Machine in Popular Culture Flow Interrupted: Crash and the Systemic Aspects of Automobilism Chapter 3. Layered Development: The Transnational Construction of a World Mobility System (1940s-1970s) What is 'Layered Development'? Alternative Developments: Soviet Mobility and the Modernization of China and India Conceiving 'Development': Mobilizing the 'Rest' Mediating Modernization: Japan and Asian 'Development' Constructing 'Circulation': The IRF and the "Development" of Africa Developmentalism vs. Dependentismo: Latin American Mobilities and the Frustrations of Middle-Class Modernity Conclusions: Road, Rail, and Development Layered, Fragmented, Subversive, Subaltern: Conclusions Bibliography Index.