"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 …
"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 …
This book examines the people using and passing by the Suez Canal to reassess the history of globalisation before 1914.
This text refines the history of globalization by considering the variety of mobile people passing through and near to the Suez Canal from its opening in 1869 to the First World War. It reveals how the global shortcut was perceived, staged and controlled and, more broadly, how m…
"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 …