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Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / Jacob Shell.
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Shell, Jacob, 1983-
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English
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015
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196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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HE193 .S54 2015
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Transportation and state
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History
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Transportation
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Social aspects
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Subversive activities
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Prevention
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Insurgency
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Smuggling
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Prevention
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Pack animals (Transportation)
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Summary note
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-186) 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.
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ISBN
9780262029339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262029332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2015001014
OCLC
907512441
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