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First edition

1 online resource (418 pages)

ISBN 9781501775383 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781501775369 (print)

Print version: Denning, Andrew, 1983- Automotive Empire : How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa. First edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2024 418 pages ISBN 9781501775369

Includes index

The colonial transport problem -- Experiments and spectacles, 1890s-1920s -- Roads before cars in French Madagascar -- Cars without roads in German East Africa -- Reinventing the wheel in the French Sahara -- The rolling spectacle of the Croisie`re noire -- The British model: automotive threats to the status quo -- The French nodel: the socio-ecological civilizing mission -- The Italian model: violence, warfare, propaganda -- Acceleration and crash in Italian East Africa -- The lives and afterlives of automotive empire.

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(OCoLC)1398513327