Research Catalog

Title

A mobile century? : changes in everyday mobility in Britain in the twentieth century / Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull, Mags Adams.

Author

Pooley, Colin G.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Turnbull, Jean.
• Adams, Mags.

Description

xvi, 251 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

In this volume the authors offer a detailed empirical analysis of mobility change in Britain over the course of the 20th century. Beginning with a theoretical overview, the text analyzes changes in the journey to school, the journey to work, and travelling for pleasure.

Series Statement

Transport and mobility series

Uniform Title

Transport and mobility series.

Subject

• Local transit > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Transportation > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Commuting > Great Britain
• Travel > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Local transit > Great Britain > History
• Transportation > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-244) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The significance of travel and mobility -- 2. Mobility and society -- 3. Reconstructing mobilities -- 4. Changes in everyday mobility : an overview -- 5. Travelling to school -- 6. Travelling to work -- 7. Travel for leisure and pleasure : children playing and hanging around -- 8. Travel for leisure and pleasure : entertainment, sport, shopping and holidays -- 9. Mobility, family and the life course -- 10. Transport policies, technologies and the experience of everyday mobility -- 11. The lessons of history : mobility change and contemporary transport policy

ISBN

0754641813 (hbk.)

OCLC

60560368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library