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Author Filippello, Marcus, author.

Title The nature of the path : reading a West African road / Marcus Filippello
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series A Quadrant book
Contents Introduction: Crossing the black earth -- The roads into Igbø Ilø : the making of an Ọhọri identity -- Roads to subversion : displaying independence and displacing authority in the early colonial era -- Going to the greens seller : Ọhọri communal expansion in the 1920s and 1930s -- "It has become a joy to go to Tollou" : reinterpreting the tools of French colonial développement -- Cementing identities : negotiating independence in a changing landscape -- Conclusion: Breathing with the road
Notes "A Quadrant book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-209) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Roads -- Benin -- History
Roads -- Social aspects -- Benin
Roads -- Environmental aspects -- Benin
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Roads
Roads -- Environmental aspects
Roads -- Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT Benin -- History -- 20th century
Benin -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013186
Subject Benin
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452952147
1452952140