Automotive Empire : How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa / Andrew Denning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denning, Andrew, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--Africa.

Transportation, Automotive.

Transportation, Automotive--Africa--History.

Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--Europe.

Africa--Colonization.

Africa.

Europe--Colonies--Africa.

Europe.

Africa--Colonial influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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"- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 Croisie`re 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-340) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-7537-5

1-5017-7538-3

OCLC:

1398513327