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UNINA9910411954303321 |
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Keiner Christine <1971-> |
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Deep Cut : Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal / / Christine Keiner |
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University of Georgia Press, 2020 |
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Athens : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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0-8203-5830-4 |
0-8203-5863-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Since 1970: histories of contemporary america. |
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General & world history |
History of science |
History of engineering & technology |
United States Foreign relations |
United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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"Deep Cut examines how proposals for a lock-free Atlantic-Pacific waterway served shifting geopolitical goals and ignited intense debates about peaceful nuclear explosives and the environmental and |
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