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Beyond the Lab and the Field : Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century
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Beyond the Lab and the Field : Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN
9780822987789
9780822946373
Publication
: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.
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Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
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©2022.
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1 online resource.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
Contents
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production | Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske
Chapter 1. A Subversive Bonanza: The Construction of the Panama Canal, the Biomedical and Life Sciences, and the Birth of Tropical Ecology | Paul S. Sutter
Chapter 2. Exploring the Earth through Its Anthropogenic Scars: Geology and the Construction of the Panama Canal | Martin Meiske
Chapter 3. Hydropower and Dams: An Entangled History of Academic Engineers, Local Knowledge, and Environmental Features, 1880-1930 | Christian Zumbrägel
Chapter 4. Constructing Dams' Global Success Story: Knowledge Production, Staging, and Exchange in US American and Spanish Dam Building from the 1920s to the 1970s | Benjamin Brendel
Chapter 5. Autobahn and Archaeology: Intersections of Infrastructure, Knowledge, and Ideology during the Third Reich | Eike-Christian Heine
Chapter 6. "From the Stone Age into Socialism": Ethnographic Expertise and Sovietization at West Siberian Oil Deposits | Valentina Roxo
Chapter 7. Slaves to the Yield: Scientific Bonanza and Irrigation Megalomania in the Kuban River Basin | Timm Schönfelder
Chapter 8. NIMBY Bonanzas: European Infrastructures and Local Protest as System Building | Vincent Lagendijk
Chapter 9. Detour along the Way: Obstacles and Knowledge Production at the Ayalon Highway | Neta Feniger and Roy Kozlovsky
Chapter 10. Landing Strips and Penguins: Ecological Oppositions to the Scientific Exploration of Antarctica | Christian Kehrt
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History.
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