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Concrete revolution : large dams, Cold War geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation / Christopher Sneddon.
LIBRA TC556 .S63 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sneddon, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dams--History--20th century.
- Dams.
- Water resources development--United States.
- Water resources development.
- Technical assistance, American.
- Water resources development--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
- Technical assistance, American--Political aspects--Developing countries.
- Geopolitics--United States.
- Geopolitics.
- Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Large dams, technopolitics, and development
- Building a "world-wide fraternity": the Bureau, China, and John Savage
- "A reclamation program to lead them": the Bureau goes global
- Ethiopia, the Bureau, and investigations of the blue Nile
- Cold War geopolitics, technical expertise, and the Mekong project
- Large dams and the contemporary geopolitics of development
- Conclusion: large dams and other things.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226284316
- 022628431X
- OCLC:
- 900609687
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