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Automotive empire : how cars and roads fueled European colonialism in Africa / Andrew Denning
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024Copyright-Datum: ©2024Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 350 pages) : illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9781501775383
- 9781501775376
- 1501775375
- Transportation, Automotive -- Africa
- Transports routiers - Aspect social - Europe
- Transports routiers - Aspect social - Afrique
- Transports routiers - Afrique - Histoire
- HISTORY / Africa / General
- Colonial influence
- Colonization
- Transportation, Automotive - Social aspects
- History
- Africa
- Europe -- Africa
- 388.3096 23/eng/20230920
- HE5702.A6
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Zusammenfassung: "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
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.
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