TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shell,Jacob
TI  - Transportation and revolt: pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility
SN  - 9780262029339
AV  - HE193 .S54 2015
U1  - 388 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge [a. o.]
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Transportation and state
KW  - History
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Subversive activities
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Pack animals (Transportation)
KW  - транспортные услуги
KW  - вьючно-верховой транспорт
KW  - вьючные животные
KW  - контрабанда
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Index: p. [187]-196; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -