[PDF.72ms] Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

[PDF.yt91] Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

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 | #1170462 in Books |  2015-06-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.73 x6.14l,.0 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Book - filled with history, technology, anecdotes|By Tom Mullen|This excellent books highlights how the Canal du Midi was a mind blowing concept for local farmers - the fact that powerful people (from the north of France, no less) planned to tame and control nature in a way that would be advantageous for both rich and poor. Not only does it tell the odd story of how a| |Co-Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association|Honorable Mention for the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category, American Sociological Association

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 entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human...

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