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9780520219854

Space in the Tropics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520219854

  • ISBN10:

    0520219856

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Spaces in the Tropics compares the current space program in French Guiana to the earlier penal colony of Devil's Island, highlighting cultural realignments in nature behind the evolution of global technology in a tropical rainforest.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface: The Edge of the World xiii
PART I. ISLANDS AND DISCIPLINES 1(48)
Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology
3(24)
History on the Wild Coast
27(22)
PART 2. COLONIAL GROUND 49(62)
Botany Bay to Devil's Island
51(25)
The Natural Prison
76(35)
PART 3. MODERN SKY 111(74)
A Gate to the Heavens
113(36)
The Margin of the Future
149(36)
PART 4. WORLDS IN MOTION 185(78)
Tropics of Nature
187(28)
The Nature of Work
215(30)
The Imperfect Equator
245(18)
Notes 263(36)
Bibliography 299(32)
Credits 331(2)
Index 333

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