...Owain Lawson Abstract This article writes engineers into the history of Lebanese political-economic thought. Historians of Lebanon's postindependence period have emphasized how a narrow, elite “consortium” espoused a national ideology that authorized laissez-faire monetary and trade policies...

... was central to colonial photography, whether through the archiving of precolonial edifices or, increasingly, through the visual representation and reproduction of colonial public works and engineering projects. In focusing on hydraulic engineering, especially canal building and bridge construction...

...Camille Lyans Cole Abstract This article uses Muhammad Khudayyir's novel-memoir Basrayatha as a loose theoretical framework to explore the ramifications of a not-yet-built infrastructure, tracing how late Ottoman officials, intellectuals, and engineers thought about the not-yet-built Baghdad...

... of a country's geopolitical aspirations. Port constructions engineer rigid boundaries between land and sea, rendering coastlines vulnerable to sea-level rise. Port operations generate effluents from imports like coal and oil that contaminate coastal environments, with devastating consequences for ecologies...

... work to engineer this new economic landscape reflects how state-business interests come together to repackage so-called development and enforce new regimes of accumulation at a time of deepening crisis. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...

...S. Satish Kumar Kumar’s essay explores Indian classical music and the language in which it is conceived, apprehended, and received. He seeks to understand the historical processes that have gone into engineering the changes not just in the form of Indian classical music but also in, perhaps, its...

...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...

... infrastructural technologies of the colonial state—revealed a uniform sense of the state as a particular kind of engine of “development,” the far more messy political economy of electrification displayed a mixed understanding of both governance and the state’s role in the economy. © 2014 by Duke University...

... Kilgour Frederick Gridley . Engineering in History . 1956. Reprint , Mineola, NY : Dover , 1990 . Kuhn Thomas S. “ Energy Conservation as an Example of Simultaneous Discovery .” In Critical Problems in the History of Science: Proceedings of the Institute of the History of Science, 1957...

... Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. Advocates of the megaport present it not simply as a vehicle of trade but as an engine that orchestrates extraction, production, and consumption across India and the Indian Ocean. 1 Such are the political and economic...

... Infrastructure Fails , edited by Graham Stephen , 131 – 44 . London : Routledge , 2010 . McKinsey and Company . Vision Mumbai: Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City . Mumbai , 2003 . Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Department of Hydraulic Engineering . “ White Paper presented...

... engineering (BS, University of Georgia, 1962; of Tehran was getting less than two thousand or PhD, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, around that much. This was a quantum jump over what was customarily paid...

...Engin Deniz Akarli Duke University Press 2006 1985), 86–105. 1985), cial Characteristics Karpat, Journal ofMiddle East Studies Century,” Nineteenth inthe Istanbul of Population Shaw, “The Stanford with Compare 781. 1994), Press, University Cambridge (Cambridge: Quataert...

...Figure 5. A plaque dedicated to a General Reserve Engineering Force officer killed in a landslide. Still from Road to Leh (dir. Gopal Datt, 1968). ...

... in their twenties, thirties, and forties joined the expanding construction industry in the Middle East as laborers, engineers, and translators. Attracted by the prospect of a two- or even threefold salary increase relative to the domestic sphere, they traveled to the sprouting construction sites in Bahrain, Iraq...

..., Kordofan and Darfur Society, Mograt partments were engineering, mechanical, traffic, ac- Cooperative Society, and al-Bawga Men’s Society, counts, hotel and catering, stores, and police. just to name a few.19 These were charitable organi- zations, whose main function was to provide eco- The nature...

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...). Monthly Journal and Report, published by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, London. Monthly Labor Review, published by the US Department of Labor. Moodie , T.D. 1994 . Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press). O'Brien , H.H. 1919...