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Author Shell, Jacob, 1983- author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
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.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Transportation and state -- History.
Transportation -- Social aspects.
Subversive activities -- Prevention.
Insurgency.
Smuggling -- Prevention.
Pack animals (Transportation)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Insurgency. (OCoLC)fst00975461
Pack animals (Transportation) (OCoLC)fst01050138
Smuggling -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01121785
Subversive activities -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01136962
Transportation and state. (OCoLC)fst01155244
Transportation -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01155204
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Shell, Jacob, 1983- Transportation and revolt 9780262029339 (DLC) 2015001014 (OCoLC)907512441
ISBN 9780262330404 (electronic bk.)
0262330407 (electronic bk.)
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