Impossible Engineering

Name: Impossible Engineering
Author: Chandra Mukerji

Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

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Paperback, 328 blz. | EN

Princeton University Press | e druk, 2015

ISBN13: 9780691166650

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Princeton University Press e druk, 2015 9780691166650

Onderdeel van serie Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

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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