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Deep cut : science, power, and the unbuilt interoceanic canal /
"The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut examines the canal in an alternative context, as an anticipated infrastructure project that captured attention from the nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Its a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Since 1970.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION The Central American Sea-Level Canal and the Environmental History of Unbuilt Megaprojects
- PART I. IN THE SHADOW OF THE PANAMA CANAL
- CHAPTER 1 Canalizing and Colonizing the Isthmus
- CHAPTER 2 Confronting the Canal's Obsolescence
- CHAPTER 3 Mobilizing for Panama Canal II
- PART II. THE PANATOMIC CANAL
- CHAPTER 4 Navigating High Modernism
- CHAPTER 5 Assessing Mankind's Most Gigantic Biological Experiment
- CHAPTER 6 Avoiding an Elastic Collision with Knowledge
- PART III. THE POST-PANATOMIC CANAL
- CHAPTER 7 Optioning the Sea-Level Canal for the Energy Crisis
- CHAPTER 8 Containing the Panama Canal Treaty's Environmental Fallout
- CONCLUSION Remembering the Unbuilt Canal
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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