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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carse, Ashley, 1977- author.

Series:

Infrastructures series.

Infrastructures series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panama Canal (Panama)--Design and construction.

Panama Canal (Panama).

Panama Canal (Panama)--Social conditions.

Panama Canal (Panama)--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities.

Contents:

The 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

The highway : the world united, Panama divided

Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure

Weeds

A demanding environment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32047-9

0-262-32046-0

OCLC:

897560792