Format:
1 online resource (382 pages)
ISBN:
9781107248649
Content:
This book examines the people using and passing by the Suez Canal to reassess the history of globalisation before 1914.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Figures and maps -- Acknowledgements -- Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: mobility and its limits -- Global connections -- Empire and mobility -- Approaching the Suez Canal -- Outline of the book -- 1 Rites de passage and perceptions of global space -- Global unification -- The opening of the Canal -- A road of civilisation and progress -- In-between space -- Port Said -- Rites de passage in the Canal and the Red Sea -- Imperial space -- Threshold between metropole and colony -- Highway of Empire -- Media in motion -- Books: guides and fiction -- Pictures: photographs and postcards -- 2 Regimes of passage and troops in the Canal Zone -- De jure: regulating the Canal passage -- The early years: experimentation and standardisation -- The British occupation of 1882: an Egyptian and a global event -- After 1882: imperial competition and international agreements -- De facto: administrating troop transports -- Organisations on the ground: the consulates of Port Said and Suez -- Information transfers: procuring and relaying intelligence -- Imperial interventions: the Madagascar expedition -- 3 Companies and workers -- Canal workers and the Canal Company -- The Canal Company, local politics and international customers -- The Canal Company and workers' movements -- Coal heavers and coaling houses -- Coaling at Port Said -- Passengers and coal heavers -- Coal heavers on strike -- Seamen and shipping lines -- The social space of the steamship: empire in microcosm -- Racial stigmatisation -- Switching crews in Port Said and Suez -- 4 Bedouin and caravans -- Civilising mission -- Despising desert mobility -- Science and classification -- Romanticisation -- Canal time and desert time -- Deceleration of 'desert mobilities' -- The intersection of two global routes at al-Qantara.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107030602
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107030602
Language:
English
Keywords:
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