African motors : technology, gender, and the history of development /

"African Motors shows how Tanzanians made cars an African technology throughout the 1900s. Anchored in hundreds of oral interviews with mechanics, passengers, and drivers, the book takes car culture apart by moving from the open road to the repair garage and from post-OPEC crisis oil trading to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grace, Joshua, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2021.
Temas:
1900-1999
Automobiles > Tanzania > History > 20th century.
Automobiles > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Technology > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Economic development > Social aspects > Tanzania.
HISTORY / Africa / East.
TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History.
Automobiles
Automobiles > Social aspects
Economic development > Social aspects
Technology > Social aspects
Tanzania
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Africa, motors, and the history of development
  • Walking to the car : a popular history of mobility and infrastructure in Tanganyika, 1860s to 1960
  • Overhaul : making men and cars in repair garages
  • The people's car of Dar es Salaam : buses, socialism, and technological citizenship
  • Oily Ujamaa : petroleum, rural modernization, and "effective freedom" before and after the "OPEC bombshell"
  • Automobile domesticities : car, road, and home in independent Tanzania
  • Conclusion: Motoring out of time : Tanzanian automobility in unsustainable times.

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