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Thinking with Water
Cecilia Chen
Janine MacLeod
Astrida Neimanis
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 2013-10-01
主題
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
0773589341
9780773589346
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JUSYRjw1FEwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities – including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers – played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.
