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

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

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Author / Creator:Shell, Jacob, 1983- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Description:196 pages : illustrations ; 24cm.
Language:English
Series:Mobility studies
Mobility studies.
Subject:
Transportation and state -- History.
Transportation -- Social aspects.
Subversive activities -- Prevention.
Insurgency.
Smuggling -- Prevention.
Pack animals (Transportation)
Insurgency.
Pack animals (Transportation)
Smuggling -- Prevention.
Subversive activities -- Prevention.
Transportation and state.
Transportation -- Social aspects.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10358012
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ISBN:9780262029339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262029332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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