Valeska Huber

Channelling Mobilities

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the people using and passing by the Suez Canal to reassess the history of globalisation before 1914.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781107595385
• ISBN-10: 110759538X
• Artikelnr.: 44031623

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.