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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse.
Material type:
TextSeries: Infrastructures seriesPublication details: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014.Description: xv, 298 pages : illustrations, mapsISBN: - 9780262028110
- 972.87505 CAR
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.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | ATREE Library | Non-fiction | 972.87505 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5706 |
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.
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