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Deep Cut : Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal / / Christine Keiner



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Autore: Keiner Christine <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Deep Cut : Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal / / Christine Keiner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: University of Georgia Press, 2020
Athens : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2020
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 386.44409
Soggetto topico: General & world history
History of science
History of engineering & technology
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations
United States
Soggetto non controllato: history
modern
20th century; science
history; technology & engineering
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Deep cut  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8203-5830-4
0-8203-5863-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910411954303321
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Serie: Since 1970.