Chandra Mukerji’s Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

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Notes

1. Mukerji, Impossible Engineering.

2. Chronologically, from the 1980s: Mukerji, From Graven Images (1983); A Fragile Power: Scientists and the State (1989); editor with Michael Schudson, Rethinking Popular Culture (1991); Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles (1997).

3. Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump, and Shapin, The Scientific Life.

4. See her discussion in chapter 9, as well as a related discussion in Territorial Ambitions on Marx.

5. As examples, see: Roberts, Schaffer, and Dear, The Mindful Hand; Wise and Wise, ‘Staging an Empire’; and Appuhn, A Forest on the Sea.