Book ID: CBB000952132

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (2009)

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Mukerji, Chandra (Author)


Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xix + 304 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

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Review McClellan, James E., III (2010) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 651). unapi

Review Horn, Jeff (2013) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". European Legacy (pp. 384-385). unapi

Review Graber, Frédéric (2011) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". Technology and Culture (p. 620). unapi

Review Ash, Eric H. (2010) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". Renaissance Quarterly (p. 676). unapi

Review Long, Pamela O. (2011) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (p. 16). unapi

Review Horn, Jeff (2013) Review of "Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi". European Legacy (p. 384). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mukerji, Chandra
Barrera-Osorio, Antonio
Camprubí, Lino
Fridlund, Mats
Guse, John C.
Han, Kyonghee
Journals
Engineering Studies
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Central European History
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Environmental History
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion
Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté
Publications de la Sorbonne
University of Pennsylvania Press
Wakefield Historical Publications
Concepts
Engineering
Technology
Technology and politics
Canals
Civil engineering
Science and politics
People
Brindley, James
Colbert, Jean Baptiste
Franco, Francisco
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Smeaton, John
Vauban, Sébastien le Prestre de
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
20th century
16th century
Renaissance
15th century
Places
France
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
Tuscany (Italy)
Korea
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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