The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000 /

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In the early 1900's the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists, social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gewald, Jan-Bart, Luning, Sabine, Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 13.
Temas:
1900-1999
Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects > Africa > History > 20th century.
Motor vehicles > Social aspects > Africa > History > 20th century.
Transports routiers > Aspect social > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Véhicules automobiles > Aspect social > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TRANSPORTATION > Automotive > History.
Social conditions
Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects
Africa > Social conditions > 20th century.
Afrique > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Photographs
  • List of Maps
  • Preface: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa : An Introduction / Jan-Bart Gewald, Sabine Luning & Klaas van Walraven
  • Part I: Historical Perspectives
  • Chapter 1. People, Mines and cars: Towards a Revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930 / Jan-Bart Gewald
  • Chapter 2. Motor cars and Modernity: Pining for Progress in Portuguese Guinea, 1915-1945 / Philip J. Havik
  • Chapter 3. Vehicle of Sedition:The Role of Transport Workers in Sawaba's Rebellion in Niger, 1954-1966 / Klaas van Walraven
  • Part II: Economic Perspectives
  • Chapter 4. Hug me, Hold me Tight! The Evolution of Passenger Transport in Luanda and Huambo (Angola), 1975-2000 / Carlos M. Lopes
  • Chapter 5. Striking Gold in Cotonou? Three Cases of Entrepreneur-Ship in the Euro-West African Second-Hand car Trade in Benin / Joost Beuving
  • Part III: Antropological Perspectives
  • Chapter 6. The Art of Truck Modding on the Nile (Sudan): An Attempt to Trace Creativity / Kurt Beck
  • Chapter 7. The Hilux and the "Body Thrower" : Khat Transporters in Kenya / Neil Carrier
  • Chapter 8. Modern chariots: Speed and Mobility in Contemporary "small" Wars in the Sahara / Georg Klute
  • Chapter 9. Religion on the Road: The Spiritual Experience of Road Travel in Ghana / Gabriel Klaeger
  • Chapter 10. A chief's Fatal car Accident: Political History and Moral Geography in Burkina Faso / Sabine Luning
  • Chapter 11. "Anyway!" : Lorry Inscriptions in Ghana / Sjaak van der Geest
  • List of Authors.

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