Stewardship politics and the control of wild weather: Levees, seawalls, and state building in 17th-century France

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-133

  Mukerji, Chandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Canal du Midi; France; Infrastructure; Legitimacy; Levees; Seawalls; Stewardship

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847290518     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706069435     Document Type: Review

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