Title Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
	©2014

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Infrastructures series
	Infrastructures series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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 -- Highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment.
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Subject	Panama Canal (Panama) -- Design and construction.
	Panama Canal (Panama) -- Social conditions.
	Panama Canal (Panama) -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Carse, Ashley, 1977- Beyond the big ditch. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] 9780262028110 (DLC) 2014008289 (OCoLC)880520994
ISBN	9780262320467 (electronic book)
	0262320460 (electronic book)
	9780262028110
	0262028115
	1322294046
	9781322294049