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

Mit Press

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

Jacob Shell

208 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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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...

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