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Looking at Suez Canal Infrastructures: Water, Plants, and the Urban Drainage, Sewage, and Bathroom Systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
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They (infrastructures) are political structures and cultural forms that have, for some time, been associated as symbols, promises, and vectors of modernity.
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