Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047430797
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2009
Content:
Preliminary Material /J.-B. Gewald , S.W.J. Luning and K. Van Walraven -- Motor Vehicles And People In Africa: An Introduction /Jan-Bart Gewald , Sabine Luning and Klaas Van Walraven -- 1. People, Mines And Cars: Towards A Revision Of Zambian History, 1890-1930 /Jan-Bart Gewald -- 2. Motorcars And Modernity: Pining For Progress In Portuguese Guinea, 1915-1945 /Philip J. Havik -- 3. Vehicle Of Sedition: The Role Of Transport Workers In Sawaba’S Rebellion In Niger, 1954-1966 /Klaas Van Walraven -- 4. Hug Me, Hold Me Tight! The Evolution Of Passenger Transport In Luanda And Huambo (Angola), 1975-2000 /Carlos M. Lopes -- 5. Striking Gold In Cotonou? Three Cases Of Entrepreneurship In The Euro-West African Second-Hand Car Trade In Benin /Joost Beuving -- 6. The Art Of Truck Modding On The Nile (Sudan): An Attempt To Trace Creativity /Kurt Beck -- 7. The Hilux And The ‘Body Thrower’: Khat Transporters In Kenya /Neil Carrier -- 8. Modern Chariots: Speed And Mobility In Contemporary ‘Small’ Wars In The Sahara /Georg Klute -- 9. Religion On The Road: The Spiritual Experience Of Road Travel In Ghana /Gabriel Klaeger -- 10. A Chief’S Fatal Car Accident: Political History And Moral Geography In Burkina Faso /Sabine Luning -- 11. ‘Anyway!’: Lorry Inscriptions In Ghana /Sjaak Van Der Geest -- List Of Authors /J.-B. Gewald , S.W.J. Luning and K. Van Walraven -- Index /J.-B. Gewald , S.W.J. Luning and K. Van Walraven.
Content:
In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially the plaything and symbol of colonial domination, the motor-vehicle transformed the economic and social life of the continent. Indeed, the motor-vehicle is arguably the single most important factor for change in Africa in the twentieth century. A factor for change that thus far has been neglected in research and literature. Yet its impact extends across the totality of human existence; from ecological devastation to economic advancement, from cultural transformation to political change, through to a myriad of other themes. This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists and social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004177352 (pbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004177353 (pbk.)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Speed of change ISBN 9789004177352(pbk.)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004177353(pbk.)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004177352.i-298
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