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Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
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New Romans 117Philosophy Of HistoryHistorical ScholarshipSocial SciencesIndex 293Impersonal Rule 203Harbour EngineeringLanguage StudiesMiddle RepublicClassicsIntellectual HistoryGeopoliticsImpossible EngineeringArchitectural DesignHistorical MethodologyPontoon BridgeHistorical ReassessmentScience And Technology StudiesHarbor EngineeringModernity
Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction xix Chapter 1: Impossible Engineering 1 Chapter 2: Territorial Politics 15 Chapter 3: Epistemic Credibility 36 Chapter 4: New Rome Confronts Old Gaul 60 Chapter 5: Shifting Sands 91 Chapter 6: The New Romans 117 Chapter 7: Thinking Like a King 154 Chapter 8: Monumental Achievement 176 Chapter 9: Powers of Impersonal Rule 203 Notes 229 Bibliography 277 Index 293