African Underclass
Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919-61
Published on 17. November 2005
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240 pages
978-0-85255-975-8 (ISBN)
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Examines how the colonial state dealt with rapid urbanisation in the context of the state's views on social order and disorder.
Examines the social, political and administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation in colonial Dar es Salaam, and the evolution of an official policy which viewed urbanisation as inextricably linked with social disorder. This is an original contribution to Tanzanian, and more broadly, African social history; to the scholarship on the colonial state; and to historiography on crime and urbanisation.
ANDREW BURTON was assistant director of The British Institute in Eastern Africa
Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern Africa
North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP
Examines the social, political and administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation in colonial Dar es Salaam, and the evolution of an official policy which viewed urbanisation as inextricably linked with social disorder. This is an original contribution to Tanzanian, and more broadly, African social history; to the scholarship on the colonial state; and to historiography on crime and urbanisation.
ANDREW BURTON was assistant director of The British Institute in Eastern Africa
Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern Africa
North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP
Reviews / Votes
Makes an important contribution to the historiography of urban Africa. ...A masterful survey of Dar es Salaam's underworld. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW African Underclass examines the social, political, and administrative repercussions of rapid urbanization in colonial Dar es Salaam, and the evolution of official policy that viewed urbanization as inextricably linked with social disorder. This policy marginalized numbers of young Africans entering the town - and thus, paradoxically, the policy itself subverted the colonial order. Well researched and sharply written - one of the best and most stimulating accounts of urbanization in Eastern Africa to have been produced in recent years. -- John McCracken, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling A welcome contribution to a growing body of work. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *More details
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
396 gr
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978-0-85255-975-8 (9780852559758)
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Content
Introduction - 'These great marts of human corruption': urbanisation & urban policy in comparative perspective - I African Urbanisation & Colonial Policy, c. 1919-46 - Dar es Salaam between the wars - The 'town native' & colonial order, c. 1919-38 - The problem of the urban African: accelerating urbanisation & the colonial response, c. 1938-46 - Unemployment, migration & urban order, c. 1938-45 - II Crime In Colonial Dar Es Salaam, 1919-1961 - Interpreting crime in colonial Dar es Salaam - The Dar es Salaam underworld - Legitimate lawlessness? The informal economy in colonial Dar es Salaam - An unwelcome presence: African mobility & urban order - III Urbanisation & Colonial Order, c. 1947-61 Development, diversification & growth: Dar es Salaam in the late-1940s & 1950s - Remaking urban society: stabilisation & citizenship in late colonial Dar es Salaam - Purging the town: the removal of undesirables - Conclusion: urbanisation, development & crime