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- Title
Großbauprojekte und öffentliche Wahrnehmung: Die Kanalbauten zwischen Mittelmeer und Rotem Meer in Antike und Neuzeit.
- Authors
SCHOLTEN, HELGA; SCHWARZ, ANGELA
- Abstract
The Suez Canal is one of the largest and most momentous major engineering projects of the 19th century. From the start, contemporaries monitored and commented on its construction. More than two and a half thousand years earlier, an artificial waterway had been built on the same isthmus. In this epoch, too, the large-scale construction project had attracted a great deal of attention and had been interpreted in many different ways. Is it a viable approach to compare people’s perceptions in epochs so far apart in time? The article uses the method of diachronic comparison to show how perceptions of such a large-scale technical project were reflected in the histories of Herodotus from the 5th century BC and the articles of two 19th century illustrated journals, Le Monde illustré and the Illustrated London News, published in the years the canal was being built. In doing so, he examines how great the diff erences and how great the similarities were between the perceptions and the underlying values. The article thus shows how much can be garnered from this comparison of assessments and the conditions of their formation from the two periods.
- Subjects
SUEZ Canal (Egypt); AGRICULTURAL engineering projects; CONSTRUCTION projects; SENSORY perception &; society; EVALUATION
- Publication
Technikgeschichte, 2021, Vol 88, Issue 4, p331
- ISSN
0040-117X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0040-117x-2021-4-331