| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"African Motors shows how Tanzanians made cars an African technology throughout the 1900s. Anchored in hundreds of oral interviews with mechanics, passengers, and drivers, the book takes car culture apart by moving from the open road to the repair garage and from post-OPEC crisis oil trading to socialist urban transport. Joshua Grace demonstrates that automobiles, best known as symbols of western technological power and development, never stabilized as a tool of empire capable of conquering and displacing African modalities of movement or their built worlds. On the contrary, pre-car walking networks provided the social and technological frameworks for Africans to appropriate cars on their own terms. The heart of this argument comes from repair garages found at homes, along streets, and under trees where mechanics designed and made a variety of African vehicles and parts. African Motors is neither a top-down nor an outside-in history, but rather an African-centered story of development featuring myriad examples of everyday Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological well-being through movement, making, and repair"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-400) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page (viewed September 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Automobiles -- Tanzania -- History -- 20th century
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
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Technology -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
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HISTORY / Africa / East.
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TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History.
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Automobiles
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Automobiles -- Social aspects
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Tanzania
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021000752 |
| ISBN |
1478021276 |
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9781478021278 |
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