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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Tác giả chính: Shell, Jacob, 1983- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2015.
Loạt:Mobility studies
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Mục lục:
  • 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.