Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

by Ashley Carse

Book Overview

A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal.

In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028115
• ISBN13: 9780262028110
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher