BIBFRAME Work

Title

Automotive empire

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Denning, Andrew, 1983- (author )

Subject

• Africa--Colonization (LCSH)
• Transportation, Automotive--Africa--History (LCSH)
• Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--Europe (LCSH)
• Europe--Colonies--Africa (LCSH)
• Transportation, Automotive--Social aspects--Africa (LCSH)
• Africa--Colonial influence (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 388.3096 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: HE5702.A6 D46 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"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"- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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 Croisière 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.

Authorized Access Point

Denning, Andrew, 1983-. Automotive empire

Geographic Coverage

• Africa
• Europe

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:10:57.919126+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23313785

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc