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Dar es Salaam : Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis.

From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brennan, James R.
Otros Autores: Burton, Andrew, Lawi, Yusuf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One. The Emerging Metropolis: A history of Dar es Salaam, circa 1862-2000; Part One. Administering Urbanization: Regulation and its failures in colonial Dar es Salaam; Chapter Two. Fueling the City: Dar es Salaam and the evolution of colonial forestry, 1892-1960; Chapter Three. Race, Class and Housing in Dar es Salaam: The colonial impact on land use structure, 1891-1961; Chapter Four. Between Segregation and Gentrification: Africans, Indians, and the struggle for housing in Dar es Salaam, 1920-1950.
  • Chapter Five. 'Brothers by Day': Policing the urban public in colonial Dar es Salaam, 1919-1961Chapter Six. Unpretentious Bars: Municipal monopoly and independent drinking in colonial Dar es Salaam; PartTwo. Competing Cultures in Colonial and Postcolonial Dar es Salaam; Chapter Seven. The Ngoma Impulse: From club to nightclub in Dar es Salaam; Chapter Eight. Simba or Yanga?: Football and urbanization in Dar es Salaam; Chapter Nine. In the 'Age of Minis': Women, work and masculinity downtown; Chapter Ten. 'I am a Partial Person': The urban experience of rural music.
  • Chapter Eleven. 'Here's a Little Something Local': An early history of hip-hop in Dar es SalaamIndex; Back Cover.