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Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar - Couverture souple

Bissell, William Cunningham

 
9780253222558: Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0253222559 ISBN 13 : 9780253222558
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often unraveled. Plans were formulated and then fell by the wayside, over and over again. By focusing on these flawed efforts to impose colonial order, William Cunningham Bissell offers a different view of colonialism and cities, revealing the contradictions, confusion, and even chaos that lay at the very core of British rule. At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Cunningham Bissell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253222559
ISBN 13 
9780253222558
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
378
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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