In his essay, Bryson points toward one key transformation in the sense of movement, or as I would prefer to call it, sense of mobility. This transformation is one that can be seen to mark the advent of high modernity—a moment when mobility became increasingly regulated and regular—marked by timetables and mechanization. But this is clearly not the only transformation of senses of mobility—of socially structured movement. It is not the ambition of this book to provide a delineated and detailed account of the whole history of mobilities in the West. It is possible, however, to sketch an outline of the transformations in senses of mobility that have preceded the worlds of mobility in the modern West, which form the subject matter of this book.