Titre

Mobility in history

Editeur

Editions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses

Auteur

Norton Peter
Mom Gijs
Millward Liz
Flonneau Mathieu

Type de livre

Groupement de textes

Collection

Histoire des transports, du tourisme et du voyage

Numéro

3505

Langue

Français

ISBN

978-2-940235-89-6

Année de parution

2011

Nb de pages

168

Avec

Tableaux, graphiques, illustrations

Format

22,5 x 14,8 cm

Peter Norton : is assistant professor in the history of technology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Fighting Traffic : The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (MIT Press, 2008), and of “Street Rivals : Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street” (Technology and Culture, 2007), which won the Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.

Gijs Mom : is Programme Director for Mobility History within the Foundation for the History of Technology, at Eindhoven University of Technology, and he teaches at this university on subjects related to the history of technology, innovation and design. He is editor of The Journal of Transport History.

In November 2003 he co-founded the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) of which he was nominated President. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Centre for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) in Eindhoven.

Liz Millward : is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. Her interests are in the history and geography of women’s spaces, with a particular focus on the role of transportation and mobility in the development and spread of feminist community.

Millward is the author of Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).

Mathieu Flonneau : is assistant professor of contemporary history at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, IRICE-CRHI. He is director of studies in the Erasmus- Mundus program TPTI and teaches mobility history at Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris. He is editor of Cultures Mobiles, a book series published by Descartes et Cie, and is involved in the research group P2M : “Passé Présent Mobilité” (Past & Present Mobility).

He is a founding member of T2M. Among his many publications, Flonneau is the author of L’automobile à la conquête de Paris : Chroniques illustrées (Presses de l’École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 2003) and Les cultures du volant : Essai sur les mondes de l’automobilisme xxe-xxiesiècles (Editions Autrement, 2008).