Transportation and revolt: pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geographies of subversive mobility

What sorts of transportation technologies and methods of conveyance have political regimes associated with the movement of weapons, papers, or people for political subversion and revolt?

In an era when much transfer of information moves across a wire-tappable medium, and much transport of goods and people occurs across a mapped network of tracks and checkpoints, what social history of the specter of subversive trafficking, and of the associated political fears this specter has been able to elicit, might help us better understand the retrenchment of an older range of possibilities for human mobility?

This book pursues these lines of inquiry, focusing on several modes of transportation which have been perceived, in different times and places, as especially useful for clandestine, subversive logistics, and which have also become relatively marginalized over the past century and a half.