Gijs Mom (166 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 171 pages. A little creasing and a wave but a solid book otherwise; clean pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Motor Vehicles; Inventory No: 177031.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 173 pages illustrated. A fine copy with no creases and no previous ownership markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Music. This is a clean, unmarked, undamaged copy.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Why has "car society" proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car - neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity - has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry believed battery-powered engines would become the dominant technology. In both Europe and America, electric cars and trucks succeeded in meeting the needs of a wide range of consumers. Before World War II, as many as 30,000 electric cars and more than 10,000 electric trucks plied American roads; European cities were busy with, electrically propelled fire engines, taxis, delivery vans, buses, heavy trucks and private cars. Even so, throughout the century-long history of electric propulsion, the widespread conviction it was an inferior technology remained stubbornly in place, an assumption mirrored in popular and scholarly memory.In "The Electric Vehicle", Gijs Mom challenges this view, arguing that at the beginning of the automobile age neither the internal combustion engine nor the battery-powered vehicle enjoyed a clear advantage. He explores the technology and marketing/consumer-ratio faction relationship over four "generations" of electric-vehicle design, with separate chapters on privately owned passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Mom makes comparisons among European countries and between Europe and America. He finds that the electric vehicle offered many advantages, among them greater reliability and control, less noise and pollution. He also argues that a nexus of factors-cultural (underpowered and less rugged, electric cars seemed "feminine" at a time when most car buyers were men), structural (the shortcomings of battery technology at the time), and systemic (the infrastructural problems of changing large numbers of batteries) - ultimately gave an edge to the internal combustion engine. One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, "The Electric Vehicle" offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation. One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has a gift inscription on front endpage, slightly twisted spine, light wear to outer corners with a slight inward bend to back cover outer bottom corner, a faint smudge to outer textblock. otherwise in great condition, strong binding, bright and unmarked pages; some light cosmetic wear and signs of previous use but an overall sturdy copy with clean interiors. Dust jacket has light rubbing with faint smudges to back, light wear to top/bottom edges. in very good condition, now in archival cover.…

paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. 2026. paperback. . . . . .

Paperback, 24 cm, 272 pp. Ills.: zwart/wit illustraties. Waarom rijden we tegenwoordig in een benzine- of dieselauto en niet in een elektrische of een stoomauto? Heeft dat te maken met zijn 'betere' techniek of zijn hier andere factoren in het spel? In dit derde deel van de Conam-reeks, gewijd aan de reconstructie en documentatie van de Nederlandse auto- en motorfietsgeschiedenis, probeert Gijs Mom, coördinator van deze reeks, een antwoord te formulieren op deze vragen. Daarbij legt hij een rechtstreeks verband tussen autocultuur en autotechniek, zowel bij de elektrische aangedreven auto als bij de benzineversie. Die poging loopt uit op de stelling, dat de sneldraaiende verbrandingsmotor het gebruik van de auto als 'avonturenmachine' mogelijk maakte, bepaalde en misschien wel voorbestemde. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9020129791.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. a nice, clean copy, like new, small quarto, 423 pages, first printing.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Condition: New.

Condition: New. 2026. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Neuf.

Condition: Neuf.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 423 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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