Deep Cut Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal / Christine Keiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keiner, Christine, 1971- author.

Series:

Since 1970.

Since 1970: histories of contemporary america.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

University of Georgia Press 2020

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Deep Cut examines how proposals for a lock-free Atlantic-Pacific waterway served shifting geopolitical goals and ignited intense debates about peaceful nuclear explosives and the environmental and evolutionary effects of marine species exchange, and, more broadly, how such proposals illuminate the environmental history of unbuilt projects"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION The Central American Sea-Level Canal and the Environmental History of Unbuilt Megaprojects

PART I. IN THE SHADOW OF THE PANAMA CANAL

CHAPTER 1 Canalizing and Colonizing the Isthmus

CHAPTER 2 Confronting the Canal's Obsolescence

CHAPTER 3 Mobilizing for Panama Canal II

PART II. THE PANATOMIC CANAL

CHAPTER 4 Navigating High Modernism

CHAPTER 5 Assessing Mankind's Most Gigantic Biological Experiment

CHAPTER 6 Avoiding an Elastic Collision with Knowledge

PART III. THE POST-PANATOMIC CANAL

CHAPTER 7 Optioning the Sea-Level Canal for the Energy Crisis

CHAPTER 8 Containing the Panama Canal Treaty's Environmental Fallout

CONCLUSION Remembering the Unbuilt Canal

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-5830-4

0-8203-5863-0

OCLC:

1183468184

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access