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Human porterage and colonial state formation in German East Africa, 1880s-1914 : tensions of transport
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ISBN: 3030894703 303089469X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Indispensable immigrants : The wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800
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ISBN: 1526101769 9781526101761 9780719095221 0719095220 1526116693 9781526116697 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester : Baltimore, Md. : Manchester University Press, Project MUSE,

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Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual sources. In this first-ever reconstruction of the forgotten metier of wine porter, topography plays a key role in forming the labour market; in the scramble to distinguish professionals from manual labourers the term artist gets divorced from lowly artisan, and wretched diet is invoked to explain w

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