“Governing the mountains, governing the water” (chisan chisui): Developing rivers in modern Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Contents 5
2. Environment, technology, and development: History of a contentious relationship 1
3. Part 1: Competing Visions of Progress
4. “Governing the mountains, governing the water” (chisan chisui): Developing rivers in modern Japan 21
5. Coal anxieties and the search for a “moral” energy resource in early twentieth-century Catholic Spain 49
6. The ideals of rationality and development in the political economy of the late Soviet Union 71
7. The limits to growth and development? Computer modeling, planetary limits, and the question of industrial development in the Global South, 1960s–1970s 93
8. Part 2: Producing and Challenging Expertise
9. From well to tap: social and technical water innovations in nineteenth-century Budapest 119
10. “Agriculture is a scam!”: Agrotechnologies and the agrarian fallacy among African grain farmers in colonial Zimbabwe, the 1920s to 1970s 139
11. Faith, empire, and weather: Missionary contributions to colonial climatology 167
12. Supplying and sustaining the nervous system of the world (c.1850 to 1939) 187
13. Part 3: Techniques and Experimentation
14. Extrastate development: Marshallese stick charts and the politics of infrastructure in the nineteenth-century Pacific 211
15. From thatched to corrugated roofs: Technological development of houses within the Papiakum landscape 243
16. Getting the most without transforming the environment: The bumpy road to the oil mills in the French colony of Dahomey 269
17. Animal improvement in the age of illustration: Visual technologies, breed selection, and cattle husbandry in the nineteenth-century Habsburg monarchy 289
18. Seeds and the technopolitics of environmental reconfiguration in wartime relief operations in Italy, 1945 – 1947 313