E-Books → The Suez Canal

Published by: voska89 on 2-07-2022, 01:50 | 0

S. C. Burchell, "The Suez Canal"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B01MEHNAAT | EPUB | pages: 86 | 13.0 mb
Critics said Ferdinand de Lesseps's ambitious scheme to link the waters of the Mediterranean and Red seas - thus cutting 5,800 miles off the India to Europe ocean voyage - was impractical, unwise, and even foolish. The hostile, empty desert of the Isthmus of Suez posed a seemingly insurmountable geographical challenge to the builder's ingenuity and persistence.

E-Books → Impossible Engineering Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

Published by: voska89 on 27-06-2022, 22:25 | 0

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) by Chandra Mukerji
English | July 26, 2009 | ISBN: 0691140324, 069116665X | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 33.9/37 MB
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering-in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea.

Magazine → Canal Boat-July 2022

Published by: Emperor2011 on 20-06-2022, 09:39 | 0

Canal Boat-July 2022
English | 94 Pages | PDF | 32.4 MB

E-Books → Building Stalinism The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space

Published by: voska89 on 20-03-2022, 03:28 | 0

Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (Library of Modern Russia) by Cynthia A. Ruder
2018 | ISBN: 1784539473, 1838600272 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water. Yet the past looms heavy over these quotidian activities: the canal was built by Gulag inmates at the height of Stalinism and thousands died in the process.