Space in the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana
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| Autore: |
Redfield Peter
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| Titolo: |
Space in the tropics [[electronic resource] ] : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.2/8/09882 |
| 988.2 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic development |
| Human ecology | |
| Human geography | |
| Human geography-- French Guiana-- History | |
| Penal colonies | |
| Penal colonies - French Guiana - Devil's Island | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology; 2. History on the Wild Coast; 3. Botany Bay to Devil's Island; 4. The Natural Prison; 5. A Gate to the Heavens; 6. The Margin of the Future; 7. Tropics of Nature; 8. The Nature of Work; 9. The Imperfect Equator; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Space in the Tropics |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92342-1 |
| 1-59734-908-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454826203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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