{"product_id":"ghana-on-the-go-african-mobility-in-the-age-of-motor-transportation-hardback-9780253022776","title":"Ghana on the Go; African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (Hardback) 9780253022776","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGhana on the Go\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAfrican Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Hart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253022776\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 15 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 15 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis well-written book deeply engages with the dynamics of African mobility and constitutes a major contribution to twentieth-century Ghanaian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (International Journal of African Historical Studies) \u003cp\u003eJennifer Hart's text sweeps triumphantly across a century of authomobility in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. . . sophisticated, clear and inspiring account. . .\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Transport History) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is much here for readers across a wide range of disciplines to learn and enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e (Africa) \u003cp\u003eHart has given us a sensitively aware and richly documented account of (auto)mobility in Ghana.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Historical Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Auto\/Mobile Lives\u003cbr\u003e1. \"All Shall Pass\": Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939\u003cbr\u003e2. \"Honest Labor\": Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Modern Men\": Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s\u003cbr\u003e4. \"One Man, No Chop\": Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana\u003cbr\u003e5. \"Sweet Not Always\": Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue. \"No Rest for the Trotro Driver\": Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century Ghana\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523983798552,"sku":"9780253022776","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ghana-on-the-go-african-mobility-in-the-age-of-motor-transportation-hardback-9780253022776","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}