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The Speed of Change: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000
Edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Edited by Sabine Luning, Edited by Klaas van Walraven
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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.
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Publisher | Brill
Published date | 31 Jul 2009
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 312
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 504g
ISBN | 978-9-0041-7735-2
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BISAC | social science / sociology / general
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