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Item The Black Prince at War: the anatomy of a Chevauchée(2014-12) Madden, Mollie M.The chevauchée, a fast-moving raid, was a common feature of English campaigns during the Hundred Years War and late medieval warfare more generally. These were highly complex, organized, and focused operations rather than unfocused raids with no other purpose but pillage and ravishment. The model of the army "living off the land" is untenable; some system of supply was necessary, even for an army pursuing a raiding strategy like that of the Prince of Wales' 1355 campaign in southern France. The logistics of supply and the realities of geography and human topography helped determine the route the army followed and what it could accomplish. The success of the chevauchée depended on the pre-existing system of purveyance and recruitment in England, rested upon an efficient supply train that accompanied the army, and relied on resupply from England. The Prince employed this raiding strategy to accomplish his aims, namely the punishment of the duke of Armagnac for his encroachments on English Gascony and disruption of the enemy's ability to provision a military force. Moreover, the actions of the Anglo-Gascon army effectively demonstrated to the inhabitants of Languedoc that the French king and his lieutenants could not protect them from the English. Thus, the Prince also achieved Edward III's larger strategic goal: the re-enforcement and projection of English royal authority and power in Gascony and France.Item Containing the Ship of State: Managing Mobility in an Age of Logistics(2018-07) Chua, CharmaineThis dissertation argues that global logistical circulation, although often taken for granted as a banal economic process, is a political project central to the making of world order. To make this argument, it examines the social and political economic impacts of the concomitant rise of logistical management and shipping containerization as twin operations intensifying the global circulation of commercial capital. Since the 1960s, businesses have increasingly experimented with just-in-time logistical techniques to speed the realization of surplus value, leading to the rise of global transoceanic networks of distribution that reorganize commercial circulation across distinct yet densely interconnected political geographies. As logistical management systems have sought to regularize, standardize, and create flexible networks for circulating goods across vast distances around the world, they have become crucial to the expanded reproduction of capital. Accordingly, states have also adopted logistics-oriented growth strategies, investing in organizing and securing a socio-spatial order that produces a world safe for the movement of commercial capital, often in ways that inhibit the social and spatial mobility of vulnerable populations that live and work along global supply chains. The empirical focus of the dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographic study of the Trans-Pacific shipping passage between the US and China. Understanding logistics as both a material practice and calculative rationality, this dissertation employs an ethnographic approach to interrogate the effects of logistics’ global rise through four cuts: 1) A theoretical and historical analysis of the rise of logistics management and shipping containerization in the 1960s, 2) the securitization of goods movement in US maritime cargo policy, 3) the expansion of logistical infrastructure across the world’s oceans and in Los Angeles and Singapore, and 4) the seafaring labor process. My overarching claim is that logistical practices and rationalities exacerbate growing and often contradictory tensions between the mobility of capital and the containment of people and infrastructure that facilitate global circulation. Rather than understand containment as a static process of sequestration or enclosure that impedes the ability for capital and people to circulate, processes of containment have gained fundamentally productive functions that intensify and facilitate, rather than prevent or deter the long-distance expansion of capitalist networks. In this way, logistics produces a set of relations in which moving the world’s goods across space comes to be understood as normative and desirable, while containing the human lives that do this work is seen as necessary and productive.Item Freight and Logistics E-News April 2004 (Vol. 2, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2004-04) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: CTS Freight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Supply chain management now part of U of MN's Transportation Studies Certificate; Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee winter meeting recap; Supply chain management symposium; New professional development opportunities from FHWA and NHI; Transportation Services Index; The Freight Story: A National Perspective on Enhancing Freight; Transportation new from FHWA GeoFreight: The Intermodal Freight Display Tool CD; Measuring Personal Travel and Goods Movement, new from TRB; Integrating Freight Facilities and Operations with Community Goals, new from TRBItem Freight and Logistics E-News April 2005 (Vol. 3, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2005-04) Center for Transportation StudiesFreight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Policy analysis tool for Minnesota biodiesel use; Mn/DOT drafts statewide freight transportation plan; Videos Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee winter meeting recap; U of MN supply chain management program, October 2005; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications available; Upcoming FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News April 2016 (Vol. 14, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2016-04) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles in this issue: Annual symposium addresses Minnesota’s freight and logistics challenges; MFAC meeting marks the start of a new era for freight in Minnesota; CTS hosts freight transportation tour for Minnesota legislators; Forum examines role of freight rail in Minnesota economy; U of M study finds higher crash risk for truckers with untreated sleep apnea; ‘New logistics’ will change the way goods are delivered—and how the road network is used; Alternative fuels will help shape Minnesota’s transportation future; More news and informationItem Freight and Logistics E-News August 2004 (Vol. 2, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2004-08) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Plan now to attend the Eighth Annual Freight and Logistics Symposium; On the riverfront: Weighing the future of a barge shipping facility; FMCSA safety permit program and Mn/DOT's commercial vehicle forms online; Videos FHWA Freight Management Operations Web site redesign; Next FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminar; Rural Freight Transportation Conference, Sept. 8Item Freight and Logistics E-News August 2005 (Vol. 3, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2005-08) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles including: Plan now to attend the ninth annual Freight and Logistics Symposium; New U of M report: Homeland Security and the Trucking Industry; Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee spring meeting recap; FMCSA Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 Listening Sessions report; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications available; Upcoming FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News August 2006 (Vol. 4, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2006-08) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles including: Plan now to attend the tenth annual Freight and Logistics Symposium; Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee spring meeting recap; U of MN supply chain management program, October 2006; New ATRI research: Predicting truck crashes based on commercial driver behavior; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications available; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News August 2007 (Vol. 5, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2007-08) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Freight and Logistics Symposium scheduled for November 30; Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee quarterly meeting recap; U of M supply-chain management program, November 2007; Fundamentals of supply-chain management workshop, August 2007; Supply-chain management conference, October 2007; Guidebook for Freight Policy, Planning, and Programming published; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications availableItem Freight and Logistics E-News August 2015 (Vol. 13, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2015-08) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles in this issue: Freight & Logistics Symposium scheduled for Dec. 4; MFAC plans strategic changes to better serve state and freight industry; $30 million available to government entities for transportation economic development; Transportation drives growth of industry clusters; Study reveals how Minnesota industries rely on transportation; Transportation and supply-chain decisions play a key role in reducing carbon emissions; Tech notes: Gleanings from the Minnesota Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Technology Exchange; FHWA ‘Talking Freight’ seminars; More news and informationItem Freight and Logistics E-News December 2012 (Vol. 10, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2012-12) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles Include: 16th annual Freight and Logistics Symposium scheduled for Dec. 7; 2013 Transportation Career Expo: Call for exhibitors; October MFAC meeting focuses on southeastern Minnesota freight issues and innovations; TIMTC webinar on truck parking scheduled for Dec. 6; CSCMP Twin Cities Roundtable events; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminars; More news and informationItem Freight and Logistics E-News December 2014 (Vol. 12, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2014-12) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Minnesota Statewide Freight Summit held Dec. 5; October MFAC meeting focuses on statewide freight and rail plans; Researchers demonstrate automated truck parking availability system; Logistics clusters: Delivering value and driving growth; Researchers examine the role of freight rail in Minnesota’s economy; Researchers identify truck bottlenecks along Twin Cities’ freight corridors; FHWA ‘Talking Freight’ seminars; More news and informationItem Freight and Logistics E-News July 2003 (Vol. 1, No. 2)(Center for Transportation Studies, 2003-07) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles in this issue: Oberstar forum proceedings: perspectives on intermodal transportation; TRB special reportsItem Freight and Logistics E-News July 2012 (Vol. 10, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2012-07) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Symposium explores effects of economic change on freight transportation; June MFAC meeting focuses on the role of transportation in economic development; Designing smart supply chains: Saif Benjaafar; MnDOT hosts the 2012 Mid-America Freight Coalition annual meeting; CSCMP-Twin Cities Roundtable events; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminars; More news and informationItem Freight and Logistics E-News June 2003 (Vol. 1, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, 2003-06) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles in this issue: Freight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Freight Capacity for the 21st Century - new TRB special report; Rail security: some actions already taken, but risk-based plan needed, GAO says; In memoriam: Dr. Frederick ManzaraItem Freight and Logistics E-News March 2006 (Vol. 4, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2006-03) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Freight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee winter meeting recap; New report from the Brookings Institution: Principles for a U.S. Public Freight Agenda in a Global Economy; FHWA to test new electronic freight manifest system; TRB Electronic Circular: Freight Data for State Transportation Agencies; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications available; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News March 2007 (Vol. 5, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2007-03) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles included: Freight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Transportation Club Expo 2007 scheduled for March 28; 2006 national freight transportation statistics published; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program publications available; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News March 2008 (Vol. 6, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2008-03) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles Include: 11th Annual Freight and Logistics Symposium proceedings published; Freight Performance Measure Systems (FPMS) System report published; Recently published freight-related research from TRB; U of M supply-chain management program scheduled for November 2008; Transportation Club Expo 2008 scheduled for April 7, 2008; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News March 2009 (Vol. 7, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2009-03) Center for Transportation StudiesArticle Include: Energy uncertainties affecting supply chains in the Upper Midwest; Panels discuss impact of economic crisis on freight business; Murphy keynotes Finnish logistics event; CSCMP Twin Cities Roundtable upcoming events; Transportation Club Expo scheduled for March 24; Recently published freight-related research from TRB; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminarsItem Freight and Logistics E-News March 2010 (Vol. 8, No. 1)(Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2010-03) Center for Transportation StudiesArticles include: Effects of recession likely to linger as economy recover; Research analyzes freight traffic between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Chicago; Researchers use computers to help find parking spots at truck stops; Freight committee discusses rail plan, economic outlook, and legislative agenda; FHWA 'Talking Freight' seminars; Transportation Club Expo scheduled for Mar. 23; CSCMP Twin Cities Roundtable events; PIANC USA calendar; More news and information