TY - BOOK ID - 146399599 TI - Automotive empire : how cars and roads fueled European colonialism in Africa PY - 2024 SN - 1501775375 1501775383 9781501775383 9781501775376 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Transportation, Automotive KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Africa KW - Europe KW - Colonization. KW - Colonies KW - Colonial influence. KW - transport problem, forced immobility, sedentarization, European mobility, imperialism, motorization, infrastructure, cars and technology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146399599 AB - "The book's trans-imperial approach draws connections among Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese colonies to show that the technological and infrastructural imperatives of motor vehicles and roads in Africa shaped the administration of empire, social relations between colonizer and colonized, and the culture of the automobile in Europe"- ER -