Chandra Mukerji

Impossible Engineering

Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

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Impossible Engineering offers a fascinating account of the planning, construction, and interpretation of a major public-works project in seventeenth-century France. Mukerji stresses the participation of many people who have often have been written out of this story, especially the peasant workforce, which included a significant contingent of women. She also raises large general issues about the modes and limitations of human interaction with the natural world. I read this book with great pleasure.--Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDrawing on a vast array of original archival data, Impossible Engineering offers an elegant an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-14032-2
EAN: 9780691140322
Produktnummer: 4316985
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 328 S.
Masse: H16.1 cm x B24.1 cm x D2.7 cm 580 g
Abbildungen: 87 halftones. 2 tables.
Gewicht: 580
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Chandra Mukerji is professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles, A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State (Princeton), and From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism.