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Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana

Title
Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana / Peter Redfield.
Author
Redfield, Peter, 1965-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

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Description
xvi, 345 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-329) and index.
Contents
Robinson Crusoe, anthropology, and the horizon of technology -- History and the wild coast -- Botany Bay to Devils's Island -- The natural prison -- A gate to the heavens -- The margin of the future -- Tropics of nature -- The nature of work -- The imperfect equator.
Call Number
HEL 01-2606
ISBN
  • 0520219848 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0520219856 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
99056834
OCLC
42866153
Author
Redfield, Peter, 1965-
Title
Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana / Peter Redfield.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-329) and index.
Research Call Number
HEL 01-2606
Sc E 03-187
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