| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Mobility studies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Transportation and state -- History.
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Transportation -- Social aspects.
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Subversive activities -- Prevention.
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Insurgency.
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Smuggling -- Prevention.
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Pack animals (Transportation)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shell, Jacob. Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2015 Mobility studies 9780262029339 (DLC)18731763 |
| ISBN |
9780262029339 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780262330404 (electronic bk.) |
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