Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal

by Christine Keiner

Book Overview

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Atlantic-Pacific Central American sea-level canal is generally regarded as a spectacular failure. However, Deep Cut examines the canal in an alternative context, as an anticipated infrastructure project that captured attention from the nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Its advocates included...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820338958
• ISBN13: 9780820338958
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"