Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility [Audiobook] download free by Jacob Shell
- Listen audiobook: Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
- Author: Jacob Shell
- Release date: 2015/8/11
- Publisher: MIT PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780262029339
- Rating: 7.52 of 10
- Votes: 511
- Review by: Guillermo Mcclain
- Review rating: 9.09 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/2
- Duration: 2H34M48S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WAV, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, Apple Lossless (compression RAR, ZIP, CBR, 7-ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 21 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M18S (4.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: How political regimes have responded when certain modes of transportation-from carrier pigeons to canal boats-have been associated with politically subversive activities. During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiques; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for smuggling and secret travel in mountainous areas; in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British feared that supplies for anti-imperialist rebellion were being transported by canal. In this book, Jacob Shell argues that many political regimes have historically associated certain modes of transportation with revolt or with subversive activities-and have responded by acting to destroy or curtail those modes of transportation. Constructing a conceptual framework linking physical geography with the politics of mobility, Shell presents historical examples of the secret, subversive mobilization of people and cargo across watery spaces and harsh terrain, carried by watercraft and transport animals including pigeons, mules, camels, elephants, and sled dogs. Efforts to suppress such clandestine mobilities ranged from the violent (the shooting of pigeons) to the indirect-curtailing financial support, certain kinds of social knowledge, or schemes for infrastructural development. To show how such efforts at immobilization could affect cities and urban transportation, Shell looks at the Port of New York in the early twentieth century, where potentially transformative plans for inner-city freight transportation were rejected-likely, Shell argues, due to fears of anarchist activities. The innovative argument advanced by Shell in Transportation and Revolt challenges conventional wisdom about the supposed obsolescence of transport methods that have become marginalized in the modern era.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Regional Geography, Military Tactics, Human Geography, Transportation Books, Defence Strategy, Planning & Research, Military Intelligence
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.86 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x21mm
- Weight: 453.59g
- Printed by: MIT Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
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