Driven Abroad: American Autotourism in the Early Cold War, 1947-1963
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2015

American autotourism abroad during the middle of the twentieth century reveals the formative role of the automobile and the act of driving in constructing an understanding of the world and the United Statesâ place within it. In motoring abroad during the Cold War, American drivers transported domestic idealizations of the âfreedom of the roadâ to foreign landscapes and, in so doing, used the automobile to mediate and frame their encounters in geographically and historically specific ways.