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Hardcover Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility Book

ISBN: 0262029332

ISBN13: 9780262029339

Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility

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 communiqu s; 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...

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