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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| Titolo: |
Transportation and revolt : pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility / / Jacob Shell
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 388 |
| Soggetto topico: | Transportation and state - History |
| Transportation - Social aspects | |
| Subversive activities - Prevention | |
| Insurgency | |
| Smuggling - Prevention | |
| Pack animals (Transportation) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| URBANISM/Transportation | |
| ENVIRONMENT/General | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transportation and revolt |
| ISBN: | 0-262-33041-5 |
| 0-262-33040-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824084803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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