Impossible Engineering
Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4008-3314-6
- EAN: 9781400833146
- Produktnummer: 38065433
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Chandra Mukerji
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