Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building

by Margaret Ziolkowski

Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century. Margaret Ziolkowski covers the enthusiasm for large-dam construction that took place during the mid-twentieth-century heyday of mega-dams, the increasing number of people displaced by dams, the troubling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646425952
• ISBN13: 9781646425952
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Wyoming Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up