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Ghana on the go : African mobility in the age of motor transportation / Jennifer Hart.
Lippincott Library HE5707.8.A6 H37 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation, Automotive--Ghana--History.
- Transportation, Automotive.
- Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--Ghana.
- Transportation, Automotive--Government policy--Ghana.
- Automobiles--Social aspects--Ghana.
- Automobiles.
- Automobiles--Social aspects.
- Transportation, Automotive--Government policy.
- Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects.
- History.
- Ghana.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Auto/mobile lives
- "All shall pass" : indigenous entrepreneurs, colonial technopolitics, and the roots of African automobility, 1901-1939
- "Honest labor" : public safety, private profit, and the professionalization of drivers, 1930-1945
- "Modern men" : motor transportation and the politics of respectability, 1930s-1960s
- "One man, no chop" : licit wealth, good citizens, and the criminalization of drivers in postcolonial Ghana
- "Sweet not always" : automobility, state power, and the politics of development, 1980s-1990s
- Epilogue: "no rest for the trotro driver" : ambivalence and automobility in twenty-first-century Ghana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Hart, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne). Ghana on the go.
- ISBN:
- 9780253022776
- 0253022770
- 9780253023070
- 0253023076
- OCLC:
- 933437853
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