Impossible Engineering : : Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi / / Chandra Mukerji.
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 entertain...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Impossible Engineering
- Chapter 2 Territorial Politics
- Chapter 3 Epistemic Credibility
- Chapter 4 New Rome Confronts Old Gaul
- Chapter 5 Shifting Sands
- Chapter 6 The New Romans
- Chapter 7 Thinking Like a King
- Chapter 8 Monumental Achievement
- Chapter 9 Powers of Impersonal Rule
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index