Valeska Huber

Channelling Mobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869-1914

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and controlled from the opening of the Canal to the First World War, arguing that this period was neither an era of unhampered acceleration, nor one of hardening borders and increasing controls. Instead, it was characterised by the channelling of mobilities through the differentiation, regulation and bureaucratisation of movement. Telling the stories of tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, stowaways, caravans, dhow skippers and others, the book reveals the complicated entanglements of empires, internationalist initiatives and private companies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107241619
• Artikelnr.: 52974736

Autorenporträt

Valeska Huber is a Research Associate at the German Historical Institute in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: mobility and its limits
Part I. Imperial Relay Station: Global Space, New Thresholds, 1870s-90s: 1. Rites de passage and perceptions of global space
2. Regimes of passage: troops in the canal zone
3. Companies and workers
Part II. Frontier of the Civilising Mission: Mobility Regulation East of Suez, 1880s-1900s: 4. Bedouin and caravans
5. Dhows and slave trading in the Red Sea
6. Mecca pilgrims under imperial surveillance
Part III. Checkpoint: Tracking Microbes and Tracing Travellers, 1890s-1914: 7. Contagious mobility and the filtering of disease
8. Rights of passage and the identification of individuals
Conclusion: rites de passage and rights of passage in the Suez Canal region and beyond
Bibliography.