Beyond the big ditch [electronic resource] : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / Ashley Carse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The machete and the freighter -- Monte -- Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- Frank Robinson's map -- Life along the river (Miocene-1903) -- Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction -- Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river -- Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Getting across and getting around -- The highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment.

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