Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal /
Carse, Ashley, 1977-
Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Infrastructures series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780262320467
Electronic Books.
TC774 / .B496 2014
Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Infrastructures series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780262320467
Electronic Books.
TC774 / .B496 2014