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Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal
出版University of Georgia Press, 2020-08
主題History / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralScience / HistoryTechnology & Engineering / History
ISBN08203586309780820358635
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H7OAEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"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 naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, physicist Edward Teller, and U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy Carter. The waterway did not come to fruition, but as a proposal it served important political and scientific purposes during different eras, especially the years spanning the Cold War and the "environmental decade" of the 1970s."--Publisher web site.