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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2015.
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| Series: | Mobility studies
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Transportation and revolt : |b pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / |c Jacob Shell. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Transportation and state |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Transportation |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Subversive activities |x Prevention. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Insurgency. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Smuggling |x Prevention. | |
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