Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility /
"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, ca...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
2015.
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| Edice: | Mobility studies
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| On-line přístup: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- 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.