canals
Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
Start of the construction of Great Fergana Canal
The main purpose of this canal is to irrigate cotton fields of the Fergana Valley.
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London’s New River
Arcadia, 2012, no. 3
Transforming Rivers into Streets: How the Nineteenth Century Scheme to Improve Shipping on the Vitava, Elbe and Danube Failed
"On Cattle and Ships: Culture, History, and Sustainable Development in Panama"
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
"'The Land is Spoiled By Water': Cossack Colonisation in the North Caucasus"
A frontier environmental history of Cossack settlers in the North Caucasus reveals some of the weaknesses of the Russian imperial mission.
Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
Arcadia, 2011, no. 2
Opening of the Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is completed under French supervision and becomes one of the world’s most important waterways.
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Haridwar Dam and Upper Ganges Canal
The completion of this infrastructure leads to lasting controversy over the severe deterioration in the flow of the Ganges and the decay of the river as an inland waterway.
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