Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse
| 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->
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse
| 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->
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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