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

• Autore: Keiner Christine <1971->
• 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
• 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.