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The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites.
Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites.
Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Technik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 328 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691166650 |
| ISBN-10: | 069116665X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mukerji, Chandra |
| Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chandra Mukerji |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 23.06.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,56 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Technik |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 328 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691166650 |
| ISBN-10: | 069116665X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mukerji, Chandra |
| Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chandra Mukerji |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 23.06.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,56 kg |
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