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Author:   Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, Netherlands) ,  Frederik Schulze (University of Münster, Germany) ,  Frederik Schulze (University of Munster Germany) ,  Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck University of London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
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9781350367913

ISBN 10:   1350367915
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Dam Internationalism: Introduction to a Global Phenomenon, Vincent Lagendijk and Frederik Schulze (Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and University of Bielefeld, Germany) 1. A Cohort of Their Own: Indian Hydraulic Engineers as Interlocuters of Dams and Development, Ramya Swayamprakash (Grand Valley State University, USA) 2. The Internationalization of Dam-Building in Twentieth-Century China, Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design, USA) 3. Hydro Expertise, U.S. Settler Colonialism, U.S. Imperialism: Professionally Communicating the Cold War, 1946-1975, Jane Griffith (X University Toronto, Canada) 4. Linking the Global to the Nation: Dams and Political Legitimacy in Spain from the 1930s to the 1960s, Benjamin Brendel (Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany) 5. New Centres of Knowledge: Latin American Dam-Building in the Twentieth Century, Frederik Schulze (University of Bielefeld, Germany) 6. Internationalism Coerced and Willing: Choreographing the Global Entanglements of an Uzbek Dam in World War II, Flora Roberts (Cardiff University, UK) 7. Hydro Money Machine: The Global History of Czechoslovak Dam-Building Expertise in the Cold War (1930s–1990s), Jirí Janác and Jakub Mazanec (Univerzita Karlova Prague, Czech Republic) 8. Internationalism-Fueled Development Agendas and Dam Construction in Imperial Ethiopia, Sara de Simone (University of Trento, Italy) 9. The Global Entanglements of Ghana’s Volta River Project, Stephan Miescher (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Dam Anthropology in Mexico and Beyond, Diana Schwartz Francisco (The University of Chicago, USA) 11. From Dam Age to Damage: The International Organization of Dam-Building in the Twentieth Century, Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Epilogue, Corinna Unger (European University Institute, Italy) Selected Bibliography Index

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This volume expands debates about dams far beyond traditional interpretations of more famous dam projects. The literature on dams disproportionately focuses on the influence of projects like the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority and the Soviet Great Structures of Communism on global dam construction, yet this volume compellingly illustrates how such a narrow focus flattens international dam history. It is an important rebuttal to this oversight that opens new debate about international actors in global dam construction around the world. * Technology and Culture *

""This volume expands debates about dams far beyond traditional interpretations of more famous dam projects. The literature on dams disproportionately focuses on the influence of projects like the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority and the Soviet Great Structures of Communism on global dam construction, yet this volume compellingly illustrates how such a narrow focus flattens international dam history. It is an important rebuttal to this oversight that opens new debate about international actors in global dam construction around the world."" --Technology and Culture

Author Information

Vincent Lagendijk is Assistant Professor of History at Maastricht University, Netherlands, and Senior Researcher at the Rathenau Institute, The Hague. His research focuses on transnational connections, the role of experts, ideology and technology. Frederik Schulze holds the substitute chair for Ibero-American History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and Privatdozent at the University of Münster, Germany.

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