The colonial transport problem
Experiments and spectacles, 1890s-1920s
Roads before cars in French Madagascar
Cars without roads in German East Africa
Reinventing the wheel in the French Sahara
The rolling spectacle of the Croisière noire
The British model: automotive threats to the status quo
The French nodel: the socio-ecological civilizing mission
The Italian model: violence, warfare, propaganda
Acceleration and crash in Italian East Africa
The lives and afterlives of automotive empire.