Book ID: CBB384585453

Beyond the big ditch: politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal (2014)

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Carse, Ashley (Author)


The MIT Press


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Infrastructures series
Physical Details: 298
Language: English

This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities.

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Review Aaron G. Victoria (June 2018) Review of "Beyond the big ditch: politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 123-124). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Carse, Ashley
Keiner, Christine
Medina, Eden
Marixa Lasso
Aravanitis, Rigas
Christen, Catherine A.
Journals
American Quarterly
Americas
Engineering Studies
Environmental History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of Technology
Publishers
MIT Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
The University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Panama Canal
Canals
Technology
Technology and politics
Infrastructure
Public policy
People
Lowell, Percival
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Wallace, John F.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
16th century
18th century
Places
Panama
United States
Mexico
Latin America
Brazil
France
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
Library of Congress
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