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Concrete Revolution - Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation (Hardcover)
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Concrete Revolution - Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation (Hardcover)
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Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it
inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition,
control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal
about the socio-ecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we
know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In
Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a
compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation's
contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social
and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its
pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902,
the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department's push for
geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet
Union's increasing global sway. By offering technical and water
resource management advice to the world's underdeveloped regions,
the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic
assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but
also forge alliances and shore up a country's global standing in
the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of
international case studies-from the Bureau's early forays into
overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities
Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia-Concrete
Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with
vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can
understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than
instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in
current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
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