Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis


edited by James R. Brennan, Andrew Burton, and Yusuf Lawi.
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Dar es Salaam : East Lansing, MI, USA : : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, in association with the Britsih Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi ; : Distributed in North America by Michigan State University Press, , 2007.
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1 online resource (290 p.)
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"This book has its origins in a 2002 conference on Dar es Salaam in the twentieth century, organised by the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam"--P. v.. - From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent?s most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a
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