Jan-Bart (Hrsg.) Gewald

The Speed of Change: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000

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In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists, social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Luning, Sabine (Hrsg.) / Walraven, Klaas (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-90-04-17735-2
EAN: 9789004177352
Produktnummer: 4613397
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 298 S.
Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.0 cm 509 g
Reihenbandnummer: 13
Gewicht: 509

Über den Autor

Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) in History, Leiden University, is senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is specifically interested in the history of the social relationship between people and technology in Africa. Sabine Luning, Ph.D. (1997) is lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University. She has published on dynamics of rituals, politics and land use in Burkina Faso. Her current research focuses on economic anthropology, in particular gold mining in West Africa. Klaas van Walraven Ph.D. (1997) in Political Science, Leiden University, is a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. He has published on Africa's international relations (OAU, AU, ECOMOG) and is working on a history of the Sawaba rebellion in Niger (1954-1975).