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Beyond the Big Ditch : Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Infrastructures SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262320467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the Big DitchDDC classification:
  • 972.87/505
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Infrastructures Series List -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Machete and the Freighter -- Part I: Headwaters -- 2 Monte -- 3 Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- 4 Frank Robinson's Map -- Part II: Floodplains -- 5 Life along the River (Miocene-1903) -- 6 Canal Construction and the Politics of Water -- 7 Pueblos Perdidos, or How the Lake Ate the River -- 8 The Agricultural Possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Part III: The Interior -- 9 Getting Across and Getting Around -- 10 The World United, Panama Divided -- 11 The Conquest of the Jungle -- Part IV: Backwaters -- 12 Weeds -- 13 A Demanding Environment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.
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Intro -- Infrastructures Series List -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Machete and the Freighter -- Part I: Headwaters -- 2 Monte -- 3 Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- 4 Frank Robinson's Map -- Part II: Floodplains -- 5 Life along the River (Miocene-1903) -- 6 Canal Construction and the Politics of Water -- 7 Pueblos Perdidos, or How the Lake Ate the River -- 8 The Agricultural Possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Part III: The Interior -- 9 Getting Across and Getting Around -- 10 The World United, Panama Divided -- 11 The Conquest of the Jungle -- Part IV: Backwaters -- 12 Weeds -- 13 A Demanding Environment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.

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