Automotive Empire : How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa / Andrew Denning.

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 Croisie`re 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.