African Underclass

Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919-61

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

AvAndrew Burton

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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 AfricaPublished in association with The British Institute in Eastern AfricaNorth America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP

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Utgivningsdatum2005-11-17
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt396 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEastern African Studies
Antal sidor240
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852559758

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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

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.