Panama Canal Forum: From the Conquest of Nature to the Construction of New Ecologies

Environmental History

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 206-287

  Carse, Ashley ^a   Keiner, Christine ^a   Henson, Pamela M ^a   Lasso, Marixa ^a   Sutter, Paul S ^a   Raby, Megan ^a   Scott, Blake ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

PANAMA CANAL ZONE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988521010     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: 19308892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/envhis/emv165     Document Type: Review

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2. Paul S. Sutter, "Nature's Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal," Isis 98 (2007): 724-54;
3. Sutter, "Tropical Conquest and the Rise of the Environmental Management State," in Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, ed. Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 317-26.
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9. For two exemplary works on these themes, see Jeffrey K. Stine, Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1993);
10. Wendy Nelson Espeland, The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
11. Sutter, "Tropical Conquest," 318.
12. John Major, Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
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14. John W. Finney, "Cost of Atom-Dug Sea-Level Canal Is Put at $500 Million," New York Times, January 21, 1964, 10;
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19. "Use of A-Bombs to Dig Canal Called Just Talk," Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1964;
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27. Kirsch, Proving Grounds, 56-60, 178-86
28. Ira Rubinoff, "Central American Sea-Level Canal: Possible Biological Effects," Science 161 (1968): 857-61;
29. Marti Mueller, "New Canal: What About Bioenvironmental Research?" Science 163 (1969): 165-67.
30. Anderson to Seitz, December 6, 1968, "Biology & Agriculture: Com on Ecological Res for Interoceanic Canal: General, 1968" Folder, National Academy of Sciences Archives, Washington, DC [hereafter, NAS].
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36. US Congress, House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Subcommittee on Panama Canal, Sea-Level Canal Studies: Hearings held June 21, 27, 28, 1978 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1978).
37. See, for example, Helen M. Rozwadowski, "Engineering, Imagination, and Industry: Scripps Island and Dreams for Ocean Science in the 1960s," in The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment, ed. Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. Van Keuren (Sagamore Beach: Science History, 2004), 315-53;
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39. Sutter, "The World with Us," 105.
40. Jorge A. Huete-Perez, Axel Meyer, and Pedro J. Alvarez, "Rethink the Nicaragua Canal," Science 347 (2015): 355;
41. Richard Condit, "Extracting Environmental Benefits from a New Canal in Nicaragua: Lessons from Panama," PLoS Biology 13 (2015): e1002208.