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Automotive Empire : How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa
Title
Automotive Empire : How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa / Andrew Denning.
ISBN
9781501775383
9781501775369
9781501775376
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (366 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"The book's trans-imperial approach draws connections among Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese colonies to show that the technological and infrastructural imperatives of motor vehicles and roads in Africa shaped the administration of empire, social relations between colonizer and colonized, and the culture of the automobile in Europe"- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Online version: Denning, Andrew, 1983- Automotive empire. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The colonial transport problem
Experiments and spectacles, 1890s-1920s
Roads before cars in French Madagascar
Cars without roads in German East Africa
Reinventing the wheel in the French Sahara
The rolling spectacle of the Croisiere noire
The British model: automotive threats to the status quo
The French nodel: the socio-ecological civilizing mission
The Italian model: violence, warfare, propaganda
Acceleration and crash in Italian East Africa
The lives and afterlives of automotive empire.
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History
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