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Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development : Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965/2007 / Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman.

Title
Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development : Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965/2007 / Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman.
Author
Isaacman, Allen F.
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors
Isaacman, Barbara.
Description
xvi, 291 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
New African histories
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • New African histories series.
Subject
  • Economic development projects > Mozambique
  • Forced migration > Zambezi River Valley
  • Cahora Bassa Dam (Mozambique) > History
  • Zambezi River Valley > Rural conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-281) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Cahora Bassa in broader perspective -- The Zambezi River Valley in Mozambican history : an overview -- Harnessing the river : high modernism and building the dam, 1965/75 -- Displaced people : forced eviction and life in the protected villages, 1970/75 -- The Lower Zambezi : remaking nature, transforming the landscape, 1975/2007 -- Displaced energy -- Legacies.
ISBN
  • 9780821420331 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 082142033X (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9780821444504 (electronic)́
  • 0821444506 (electronic)́
LCCN
^^2012049113
OCLC
  • 821067775
  • SCSB-11744561
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library