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Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / Jacob Shell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shell, Jacob, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Mobility studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation and state--History.
- Transportation and state.
- Transportation--Social aspects.
- Transportation.
- Subversive activities--Prevention.
- Subversive activities.
- Insurgency.
- Smuggling--Prevention.
- Smuggling.
- Pack animals (Transportation).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Modes of transportation understood, by political regimes in different times and places, as intrinsically useful for clandestine movement, subversive mobility, and smuggling for revolt. Contents: Chapters look at canal transportation, several types of animal transportation (mules, elephants, camels and sled-dogs are all treated at some length), and inner-city freight-carrying infrastructure"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mules and upland banditry
- Transportation across intermediate states of matter
- Elephants, shat khats, and seas of mud
- Camels and granules
- The Asian elephant in Africa: paths not taken
- Many-headed monsters and guerrilla sled dogs
- Pidgin coalitions
- Unmappable mobility and the elements: six geographies of possibility
- Fly-boaters, filibusters, and canals
- Britain's missing ship canal era
- Railroads versus canals
- Canal people
- Ribbonists, Fenians, and waterways
- Dempingen
- Chenangoes: the replanning of freight flows in New York City
- Why doesn't New York City have a subway system for freight?
- The Chenangoes of throttled!
- Casual harbor work, shadow manufacturing, and comprehensive planning
- Transshipment of uranium
- Contrasting visions of transport labor.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-33041-5
- 0-262-33040-7
- OCLC:
- 917889201
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