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Automotive Empire
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.
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Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa
\"In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity
Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE). Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.
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Existence and Heritage
In Existence and Heritage , Tsenay Serequeberhan examines
what the European philosophical tradition has to offer when
encountered from the outsider perspective of postcolonial African
thought. He reads Kant in the context of contemporary international
relations, finds in Gadamer's work a way of conceiving relations
among differing traditions, and explores Heidegger's analysis of
existence as it converges with Marx's critique of alienation. In
the confluence of these different assessments, Serequeberhan
articulates both a need and example of responding to Fanon's call
for a new kind of thinking in philosophy. He demonstrates both how
continental philosophy can be a useful resource for theorizing
Africa's postcolonial condition and how postcolonial thought and
African philosophy can provide a new way of approaching and
understanding the Western tradition.
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Indigenous communities and settler colonialism : land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world
The new world created through Anglophone emigration in the 19th century has been much studied. But there have been few accounts of what this meant for the Indigenous populations. This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected through their struggles to do so.
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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa.
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