TY - BOOK AU - Shell,Jacob TI - Transportation and revolt: pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility T2 - Mobility studies SN - 9780262029339 AV - HE193 .S54 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England 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) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -