Korean people had overthrown their military dictatorship that special forces were deployed against civilians. The residents of Daechuri were forcibly removed from their land, and the town that was once called Daechuri no longer exists. It has become an extension of Camp Humphreys. The U.S. mili- tary has been going through a rapid transformation that is not fully captured in this book, which is by no means a limitation of the authors or editors, but of the glacial pace of academic publishing compared to the light speed of contemporary militarism. Over There is an excellent study of militarized gender, sexuality, and race relations, and an important comparative study of Germany, South Korea, and Japan. It is written in accessible language that would be appropriate for undergraduates as well as graduate students. In terms of larger study of U.S. military empire’s impact, this book is best paired with other recent collections such as Lutz’s The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts (NYU Press, 2009) and Shigematsu’s and Camacho’s Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Impossible Engineering Emily Erikson 1 Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. Chandra Mukerji. Princeton, NJ / Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. The Canal du Midi is a 150-mile picturesque waterway running through the South of France from Toulouse to Se`te. Completed in the 1680s, it is justi- fiably considered a miraculous feat of engineering for its day. The innovative techniques developed in its construction, particularly the oval locks, were widely adopted elsewhere, but the canal itself, though clearly a technological marvel, did not seem to see much practical use. Small commercial barques were towed along the canal and it was commonly used as a site for laundry facilities. Today, it is mainly a tourist destination. In Impossible Engineering, Chandra Mukerji tells the fascinating story of the canal’s creation, which unfolds over the course of a tempestuous relationship between Louis XIV’s celebrated minister of finance, Jean Baptiste Colbert, and the bourgeois tax collector Pierre-Paul Riquet. These historical events are situated within a larger theoretical project, long present in Mukerji’s work, exploring the relationship between territoriality and political authority. The book is both engagingly written and theoretically rich, filled with small and 1 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520; e-mail: emily.erikson@yale.edu. 552 Erikson