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- Examines the intersection of the fields of mobility, transport and migration
- Employs a series of lenses to develop our understanding of movement in the past
- Emphasises the links between transport infrastructure, mobility expectations and social disadvantage
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History (PSMH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Human mobility – through migration, everyday movement, transportation, and population shifts – can be understood in a myriad ways. Scholars have framed ‘mobility’ in the past decade or so as a dynamic and critical concept in studies of sociology and geography. Taking these ideas, and by providing a strong synthesis and interpretation, Pooley’s book engages in new and exciting ways with the role of historical readings of mobility, migration and transport. The worlds of people in the past, their mobile lives, are integrated here in a sophisticated, short innovative text, with its underlying argument for an interdisciplinary shift across the way we think, read, teach and research in mobility studies.” (Catharine Coleborne, Professor and Head of School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia)
“In this valuable and unique book, Pooley calls attention to key connections linking three closely related yet also independently developing fields of scholarship while also pointing the way forward for new, more interdisciplinary research.” (Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)“Pooley has written a revelatory and accessible book that makes the case that students of migration, mobility, and transportation would do well to look to each other in order to deepen their understanding of the human experience – and to do so in historical perspective. Using a combination of international data, a wide set of references, and individual example, Pooley persuasively argues that these three fields together open the way for rich interdisciplinary research and teaching.” (Leslie Page Moch, Professor Emerita of History, Department of History, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
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Lancaster Environment Centre , Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Colin G. Pooley
About the author
Colin G Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in The Lancaster Environment Centre and the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility, Migration and Transport
Book Subtitle: Historical Perspectives
Authors: Colin G. Pooley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51883-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51882-4Published: 30 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84769-6Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51883-1Published: 19 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4358
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4366
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 138
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Historiography and Method, Migration, Modern History, Social History