Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / Jacob Shell.
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- 9780262330404
- 0262330407
- 0262330415
- 9780262330411
- Transportation and state -- History
- Transportation -- Social aspects
- Subversive activities -- Prevention
- Insurgency
- Smuggling -- Prevention
- Pack animals (Transportation)
- Transport -- Politique gouvernementale -- Histoire
- Transport -- Aspect social
- Révoltes
- Bêtes de somme
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation
- TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
- Insurgency
- Pack animals (Transportation)
- Smuggling -- Prevention
- Subversive activities -- Prevention
- Transportation and state
- Transportation -- Social aspects
- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
- URBANISM/Transportation
- ENVIRONMENT/General
- 388 23
- HE193 .S54 2015eb
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"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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