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African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam.(Book review)
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Urban History Review
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Schneider, Leander
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Andrew Burton. African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. Oxford: James Currey, 2005.
Especially on the African continent, "the coming anarchy" of chaotic, anomic urban agglomerations has, we learn from Andrew Burton's book, long been in the coming--in this case in the minds of colonial administrators and, ironically, also a good number of the more "established" very contributors to the process of urbanization. Such anxieties, and the responses they sparked, are the core interest of this engaging study of the development of Tanganyika/Tanzania's principal city, Dar es Salaam, during the time of British colonial rule (1919-1961).
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