Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse |
Autore | Carse Ashley <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.87/505 |
Collana | Infrastructures Series |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-262-32046-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463811103321 |
Carse Ashley <1977-> | ||
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse |
Autore | Carse Ashley <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.87/505 |
Collana | Infrastructures series |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ENVIRONMENT/General |
ISBN |
0-262-32047-9
0-262-32046-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788077003321 |
Carse Ashley <1977-> | ||
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse |
Autore | Carse Ashley <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.87/505 |
Collana | Infrastructures series |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ENVIRONMENT/General |
ISBN |
0-262-32047-9
0-262-32046-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824510803321 |
Carse Ashley <1977-> | ||
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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