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

Modes of transportation understood, by political regimes in different times and places, as intrinsically useful for clandestine movement, subversive mobility and smuggling for revolt. Chapters look at canal transportation, several types of animal transportation (mules, elephants, camels and sled-dog...

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Main Author: Shell, Jacob, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]
Series:Mobility studies.
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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. 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.
Physical Description:196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262029339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262029332 (hardcover : alk. paper)