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Channelling Mobilities - Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869-1914 (Paperback)
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Channelling Mobilities - Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869-1914 (Paperback)
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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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