TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carse,Ashley
TI  - Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
T2  - Infrastructures Series
SN  - 9780262320467
U1  - 972.87/505 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Panama Canal (Panama)-Design and construction
KW  - Panama Canal (Panama)-Social conditions
KW  - Panama Canal (Panama)-Environmental aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339896
ER  -