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Automotive empire : how cars and roads fueled European colonialism in Africa / Andrew Denning

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 350 pages) : illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9781501775383
  • 9781501775376
  • 1501775375
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781501775369. | Erscheint auch als: Automotive empire. Druck-Ausgabe Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024DDC classification:
  • 388.3096 23/eng/20230920
LOC classification:
  • HE5702.A6
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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 Croisière 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.
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"-PPN: PPN: 1907955801Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB
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