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

by Andrew 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 Africa

Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern Africa
North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP
  • ISBN10 0852559755
  • ISBN13 9780852559758
  • Publish Date 17 November 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint James Currey
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 240
  • Language English