Description |
1 online resource (301 p.). |
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INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
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INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
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Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production | Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske -- Chapter 1. A Subversive Bonanza: The Construction of the Panama Canal, the Biomedical and Life Sciences, and the Birth of Tropical Ecology | Paul S. Sutter -- Chapter 2. Exploring the Earth through Its Anthropogenic Scars: Geology and the Construction of the Panama Canal | Martin Meiske |
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Chapter 3. Hydropower and Dams: An Entangled History of Academic Engineers, Local Knowledge, and Environmental Features, 1880-1930 | Christian Zumbrägel -- Chapter 4. Constructing Dams' Global Success Story: Knowledge Production, Staging, and Exchange in US American and Spanish Dam Building from the 1920s to the 1970s | Benjamin Brendel -- Chapter 5. Autobahn and Archaeology: Intersections of Infrastructure, Knowledge, and Ideology during the Third Reich | Eike-Christian Heine |
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Chapter 6. "From the Stone Age into Socialism": Ethnographic Expertise and Sovietization at West Siberian Oil Deposits | Valentina Roxo -- Chapter 7. Slaves to the Yield: Scientific Bonanza and Irrigation Megalomania in the Kuban River Basin | Timm Schönfelder -- Chapter 8. NIMBY Bonanzas: European Infrastructures and Local Protest as System Building | Vincent Lagendijk -- Chapter 9. Detour along the Way: Obstacles and Knowledge Production at the Ayalon Highway | Neta Feniger and Roy Kozlovsky |
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Chapter 10. Landing Strips and Penguins: Ecological Oppositions to the Scientific Exploration of Antarctica | Christian Kehrt -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Technologie -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
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Technologie -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
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Science -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
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Science -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Technology -- History -- 20th century.
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Technology -- History -- 19th century.
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Science -- History -- 20th century.
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Science -- History -- 19th century.
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Research -- History -- 20th century.
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Research -- History -- 19th century.
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Technology. |
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Science. |
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Research. |
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Infrastructure (Economics) |
Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Added Author |
Meiske, Martin.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Heine, Eike-Christian Beyond the Lab and the Field : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2022 9780822946373 |
ISBN |
0822987783 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822987789 (electronic bk.) |
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