TY - BOOK ID - 314666 TI - The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000 AU - Gewald, Jan-Bart. AU - Luning, Sabine. AU - Walraven, Klaas van PY - 2009 SN - 9789004177352 9004177353 9786612603020 9047430794 1282603027 9789047430797 9781282603028 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - History of Africa KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Transportation, Automotive KW - Motor vehicles KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - Automotive vehicles KW - Vehicles KW - Automotive transportation KW - Highway transportation KW - Motor carriers KW - Motor transportation KW - Road transportation KW - Automobiles KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - Africa KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Social conditions KW - Africa --Social conditions --20th century. KW - Motor vehicles --Social aspects --Africa --History --20th century. KW - Transportation, Automotive --Social aspects --Africa --History --20th century. KW - Business & Economics KW - Transportation Economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:314666 AB - In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially the plaything and symbol of colonial domination, the motor-vehicle transformed the economic and social life of the continent. Indeed, the motor-vehicle is arguably the single most important factor for change in Africa in the twentieth century. A factor for change that thus far has been neglected in research and literature. Yet its impact extends across the totality of human existence; from ecological devastation to economic advancement, from cultural transformation to political change, through to a myriad of other themes. This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists and social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa. ER -