UID:
almafu_9959760786802883
Format:
1 online resource (433 pages)
ISBN:
1-4780-2127-6
Content:
"In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how everyday Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s to the early 2000s."--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-1059-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4780-1171-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478021278
