02976oam 22005774a 450 991041195430332120240216152002.00-8203-5830-40-8203-5863-0(CKB)4100000011372826(OCoLC)1183468184(MdBmJHUP)muse91593(MiAaPQ)EBC6421543(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28443(EXLCZ)99410000001137282620200206d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeep CutScience, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal /Christine KeinerUniversity of Georgia Press2020Athens :The University of Georgia Press,2020.©2020.1 online resourceSince 1970: histories of contemporary america.0-8203-3894-X 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."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 evolutionary effects of marine species exchange, and, more broadly, how such proposals illuminate the environmental history of unbuilt projects"--Provided by publisher.Since 1970.General & world historybicsscHistory of sciencebicsscHistory of engineering & technologybicsscUnited StatesForeign relationsUnited Statesfasthttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrqhistorymodern20th century; sciencehistory; technology & engineeringGeneral & world historyHistory of scienceHistory of engineering & technology386.44409Keiner Christine1971-891511MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910411954303321Deep cut1991291UNINA