Automotive Empire
How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 July 2024
- ISBN 9781501775369
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 907 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 43 b&w halftones, 14 maps - 14 Maps - 43 Halftones, black and white Maps 529
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Long description:
In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport---they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole.
European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge---the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but revealed weakness as much as it extended power.
As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them, automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism itself.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: The Colonial Transport Prob
1. Roads before Cars in French Madagascar
2. Cars without Roads in German East Africa
3. Reinventing the Wheel in the French Sahara
4. The Rolling Spectacle of the Croisi--re noire
5. The British Model: Automotive Threats to the Status Quo
6. The French Model: The Socio-Ecological Civilizing Mission
7. The Italian Model: Violence, Warfare, Propaganda
8. Acceleration and Crash in Italian East Africa
Conclusion: The Lives and Afterlives of Automotive Empire
