Mobility in History

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.