{"product_id":"african-motors-9781478011712","title":"African Motors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how everyday Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s to the early 2000s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilarating contribution to recent African-centric histories of development shedding new light on the significance of automobility—meaning the entire ‘machinic complex’ of driving, roads, garage work, urban transport, and oil trading. Joshua Grace emphasizes the creativity and agency involved in vernacular invention, maintenance, and repair as part of urban mobility and ‘technological citizenship’ in Tanzania. This book is a welcome addition to the growing field of postcolonial mobility studies, decolonial mobility history, and African studies of technology and innovation.” -- Mimi Sheller, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Drexel University\u003cbr\u003e“In vivid prose, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors\u003c\/i\u003e shows how motor vehicles became African technologies. Joshua Grace sets new standards for research and engagement, weaving tales of African technological expertise into an analysis whose import extends well beyond Tanzania. You will never see cars and drivers the same way again.” -- Gabrielle Hecht, author of * Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors \u003c\/i\u003estands as an excellent contribution to both the history of science and African history fields. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfrican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotors \u003c\/i\u003ehandily illustrates the effects that the automobile has had on both Tanzanian states and societies, as well as the technological agency Tanzanians have sought to work through the car in turn.” -- Kyle Harmse * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tanzania’s automobility takes center stage in this scholarly work by Grace. . . . The book's five main chapters cover mobility in the region and infrastructure from the 1860s to 1960, masculinity, gender relations, and notions of citizenship tied to technological objects. Recommended.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- G. Emeagwali * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors \u003c\/i\u003eis wide-ranging in its scope, taking the reader on a journey that provides needed insight into the layered and overlapping social and technological systems that have produced modern African systems of motor transport. . . . While set in Tanzania, this text provides insights that will doubtless resonate with scholars of other African and world regions.” -- Jonathan T. Reynolds * International Journal of African Historical Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Joshua Grace’s \u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating, wide-ranging historical account of automobility in what is now Tanzania. . . . Grace is an intrepid researcher, not only plumbing novel archives but also conducting extensive oral histories and even getting his hands dirty at local garages. The result is a welcome emphasis on the way automobility coevolved with local concepts and logics.” -- Michael Degani * Journal of African History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Put simply, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Motors \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to how historians should practice their craft. … [It] constitutes a foundational study that should, in this reviewer’s opinion, remain a mainstay in methodological postgraduate history seminars for years to come.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Marcus Filippello * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Africa, Motors, and a History of Development  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Walking to the Car: A Popular History of Mobility and Infrastructure in Tanganyika, 1860s to 1960  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Overhaul: Making Men and Cars in Repair Garages  82\u003cbr\u003e 3. The People's Car of Dar es Salaam: Buses, Socialism, and Technological Citizenship  143\u003cbr\u003e 4. Oily Ujamaa: Petroleum, Rural Modernization, and \"Effective Freedom\" before and after the \"OPEC Bombshell\"  185\u003cbr\u003e 5. Motorized Domesticities: Care, Road, and Home in Independent Tanzania  233\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Motoring Out of Time: Tanzanian Automobility in Unsustainable Times  275\u003cbr\u003e Notes  301\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  371\u003cbr\u003e Index  401","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408991658327,"sku":"9781478011712","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478011712.jpg?v=1730505000","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-motors-9781478011712","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}