Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
In 1929, the Kondopoga hydroelectric power station was built and resulted in the damming of Lake Girvas and the diversion of the Suna River. This transformation of landscape resulted in the near loss of one of Russia’s foremost nature sites: the Kivach waterfall.
Combinando memoria, esperienza e ricerca d’archivio, questo volume esplora la connessione tra lo storytelling e la storia ambientale in Germania e in Italia.
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.
