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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse

Catalog Data

Author:
Carse, Ashley 1977-  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Panama Canal (Panama)
Date:
2014
Contents:
The machete and the freighter -- Monte -- Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- Frank Robinson's map -- Life along the river (Miocene-1903) -- Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction -- Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river -- Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Getting across and getting around -- The highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment
Topic:
Design and construction  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Environmental aspects  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1036563