Building the World [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Great Engineering Projects in History Davidson, Frank P. and Brooke, Kathleen Lusk

Humans are builders--we make structures to span rivers, to connect points of land, to offer shelter. Indeed, throughout history, civilizations have created structures of such immense scale, requiring such tremendous resources, that they might have been thought impossible. From the Taj Mahal to the Suez Canal, from Solomon's Temple to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, these feats of macro-engineering are a testament to the creativity and foresight of engineers, architects, government officials, and diplomats. Who came up with the ideas for these projects? How did they see them through to completion? What obstacles--diplomatic, legal, logistical, and engineering--had to be overcome for these structures to be built? What impact did these engineering projects have on the economies and cultures of their societies? This encyclopedia answers all of these questions, showing how central these great engineering projects are to the history of civilization. It includes the legal documents that launched them.

DOI: 10.1336/0313333548 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR3354.aspx

Building the World [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Great Engineering Projects in History Hardback, 984 pages, $199.95 Copyright ©2006, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-33354-8 DOI: 10.1336/0313333548

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