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Author Heine, Eike-Christian.

Title Beyond the Lab and the Field [electronic resource] : Infrastructures As Places of Knowledge Production since the Late Nineteenth Century.

Imprint : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (301 p.).
Series INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
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
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
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
Chapter 10. Landing Strips and Penguins: Ecological Oppositions to the Scientific Exploration of Antarctica | Christian Kehrt -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
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Subject Technologie -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Technologie -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
Science -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.
Science -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Technology -- History -- 20th century.
Technology -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- History -- 20th century.
Science -- History -- 19th century.
Research -- History -- 20th century.
Research -- History -- 19th century.
Technology.
Science.
Research.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Meiske, Martin.
Other Form: Print version: Heine, Eike-Christian Beyond the Lab and the Field : University of Pittsburgh Press,c2022 9780822946373
ISBN 0822987783 (electronic bk.)
9780822987789 (electronic bk.)