Keyword: Infrastructure: How a humble French engineering term shaped the modern world

Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 27-39

  Carse, Ashley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85006473061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315622880     Document Type: Chapter

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