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Deep Cut Series Editors Lynne Itagaki, University of Missouri Daniel Rivers, Ohio State University Founding Editors Claire Potter, Wesleyan University Renee Romano, Oberlin College Advisory Board Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California Devin Fergus, Hunter College, City University of New York David Greenberg, Rutgers University Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia Jennifer Mittelstadt, Rutgers University Stephen Pitti, Yale University Robert Self, Brown University Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia Judy Wu, University of California, Irvine Deep Cut Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal • Christine Keiner The University of Georgia Press athens © 2020 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org Some rights reserved CC BY-NC-ND This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Note to users: A Creative Commons license is only valid when it is applied by the person or entity that holds rights to the licensed work. Works may contain components (e.g., photographs, illustrations, or quotations) to which the rightsholder in the work cannot apply the license. It is ultimately your responsibility to independently evaluate the copyright status of any work or component part of a work you use, in light of your intended use. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020932724 ISBN: 9780820358635 (ebook: open access edition) ISBN: 9780820338941 (hardback: alk. paper) ISBN: 9780820338958 (paperback: alk. paper) ISBN: 9780820358307 (ebook: standard edition) An earlier version of material from chapters 1 and 3 appeared, in very different form, within Ashley Carse, Christine Keiner, Pamela M. Henson, Marixa Lasso, Paul S. Sutter, Megan Raby, and Blake Scott, “Panama Canal Forum: From the Conquest of Nature to the Construction of New Ecologies,” Environmental History 21 (2016): 206–87. An earlier version of material from chapters 5–6, in very different form, appeared in Christine Keiner, “A Two-Ocean Bouillabaisse: Science, Politics, and the Central American Sea-Level Canal Controversy,” Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017): 835–87, to which Springer Nature retains copyright. This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pilot uses cutting-edge publishing technology to produce open access digital editions of high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs from leading university presses. Free digital editions can be download- ed from: Books at JSTOR, EBSCO, Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, OAPEN, Project MUSE, and many other open repositories. While the digital edition is free to download, read, and share, the book is under copyright and covered by the following Creative Commons License: BY-NC-ND. Please consult www.creativecommons.org if you have questions about your rights to reuse the material in this book. When you cite the book, please include the following URL for its Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.46935/9780820358635 We are eager to learn more about how you discovered this title and how you are using it. We hope you will spend a few minutes answering a couple of questions at this url: https://www.longleafservices.org/shmp-survey/ More information about the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot can be found at https://www.longleafservices.org. To the Memory of James A. Keiner 1940–2016 Sailor, Civil Servant, Father, Friend • Contents Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction The Central American Sea-Level Canal and the Environmental History of Unbuilt Megaprojects 1 Part I. In the Shadow of the Panama Canal Chapter 1 Canalizing and Colonizing the Isthmus 17 Chapter 2 Confronting the Canal’s Obsolescence 33 Chapter 3 Mobilizing for Panama Canal II 49 Part II. The Panatomic Canal Chapter 4 Navigating High Modernism 67 Chapter 5 Assessing Mankind’s Most Gigantic Biological Experiment 88 Chapter 6 Avoiding an Elastic Collision with Knowledge 107 Part III. The Post-Panatomic Canal Chapter 7 Optioning the Sea-Level Canal for the Energy Crisis 131
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