9780253023070-0253023076-Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation

Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation

ISBN-13: 9780253023070
ISBN-10: 0253023076
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jennifer Hart
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780253023070
ISBN-10: 0253023076
Edition: Reprint
Author: Jennifer Hart
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback 264 pages

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Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (ISBN-13: 9780253023070 and ISBN-10: 0253023076), written by authors Jennifer Hart, was published by Indiana University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other West Africa (African History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used West Africa books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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As 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.

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