Channelling Mobilities

Channelling Mobilities

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

Huber, Dr. Valeska

Cambridge University Press

08/2013

365

Dura

Inglês

9781107030602

15 a 20 dias

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