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 en...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Princeton (N.J.) :
Princeton University Press
2021.
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès INSA CVL |
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Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9781400833146.jpg Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 330 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus Sciences de l'ingénieur |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Impossible engineering, technology and territoriality on the Canal du Midi, Chandra Mukerji, 2009, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XIX-304 p.), Princeton studies in cultural sociology, 978-0-691-14032-2 |
Sumário:
- Impossible engineering
- Territorial politics
- Epistemic credibility
- New Rome confronts old Gaul
- Shifting sands
- The new Romans
- Thinking like a king
- Monumental achievement
- Powers of impersonal rule