Dam Internationalism

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.

A welcome contribution not only to academic scholarship but also to the ongoing debate on the viability of dams as tools for sustainable global development … It will undoubtedly become essential reading for students and researchers interested in the complex global dynamics of infrastructure-building in the twentieth century.

• 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