Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / Jacob Shell.

Author
Shell, Jacob, 1983- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
  • ©2015
Description
196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780262029339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 0262029332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2015001014
    OCLC
    907512441
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