Download or read book Dam Internationalism written by Vincent Lagendijk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and companies embedded in globally circulating technological knowledge and discourses of modernization and development. This volume takes a global approach to the history of dams, exploring the complex power relations and internationalist entanglements that shaped them. Shedding new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles that defined the 20th century, Dam Internationalism shows that dams are artefacts in their own right and have created new and revisionist histories that urge us to rethink classic narratives. From international cooperation, to the importance of the Cold War and the capitalist/socialist divide, the success of western technology, the prominence of the United States, the alleged impotence of people affected by dams, and the uniformity of infrastructure. Each chapter showcases a different case study from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America to show that dams enabled marginalized countries and actors to articulate themselves and pursue their own political and socio-economic goals in a century dominated by the Global North.
Download or read book The International Dam written by Joe Clabby and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, Dexter P. Cooper, a dam designer and builder, when looking at a map of the place where he and his new wife would honeymoon, had an astounding epiphany. The mainland of New Brunswick, Canada, could be linked with several islands and the Maine mainland - via a series of dams. If this could be done, and if the twenty-six-foot high tides of Passamaquoddy Bay could be harnessed - the tides could be used to produce a MILLION MEGAWATTS of power each day! Dexter's dam would become one of the seven wonders of the world! In 1925, Dexter Cooper and his family moved to Campobello Island at the mouth of Passamaquoddy Bay on the US/Canada border - intent on building their massive damworks. Had this project succeeded, the greater Eastport, Maine, area, including Washington and Charlotte Counties, would have been tremendously different than they are today. Eastport, the epicenter of Dexter's dam plan would have become a major shipping port on the East Coast of the United States. A true gem on the Eastern Seaboard. Dexter, and his wife, Gertie, tried for almost five years to obtain the regulatory approvals needed to build this dam - and were set to overcome the last hurdle when something extraordinary happened. One government body rejected their bid. And that rejection killed Dexter's dream dam - at least in the near term.What were the politics on both the Canadian and United States sides of the border leading to the failure to build the International Dam? How did the people of the time react to the potential destruction of the bay's habitat and the loss of their nature-dependent jobs? And what's going to happen to the bay now that climate change is creeping its way up the Maine coast? These are but a few of the questions considered in this book. Book 1 of this series, The Dam Builders, is the prelude to Dexter's attempts to build his tidal power dams along Passamaquoddy Bay on the US/Canadian border. It describes who Dexter Cooper was - and what life was like for the dam engineer in the 1910s and 20s. This book, Book 2, The International Dam examines Dexter's first attempt to build his dream dam - his International Dam. Book 3, The All-American Dam, describes Dexter's next attempt to build his dream dam. And Book 4, The Quoddy Dams tells the final chapter in the story of the Passamaquoddy Bay Tidal Project.
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Download or read book Placing Internationalism written by Stephen Legg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated process through international conferences, this edited collection studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society institutions and anti-colonial political networks used these events to realise their visions of the international. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, contributors explore the spatial paradox of two fundamental features of modern internationalism. First, internationalism demanded the overcoming of space, transcending the nation-state in search of the shared interests of humankind. Second, internationalism was geographically contingent on the places in which people came together to conceive and enact their internationalist ideas. From Paris 1919 to Bandung 1955 and beyond, this book explores international conferences as the sites in which different forms of internationalism assumed material and social form. While international 'permanent institutions' such as the League of Nations, UN and Institute of Pacific Relations constantly negotiated national and imperial politics, lesser-resourced political networks also used international conferences to forward their more radical demands. Taken together these conferences radically expand our conception of where and how modern internationalism emerged, and make the case for focusing on internationalism in a contemporary moment when its merits are being called into question.
Download or read book Internationalists in European History written by Jessica Reinisch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century. Reacting against the old Eurocentricism, much of the scholarship in the field has refocussed attention on other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to rethink the role played by ideas, people and organisations originating or located in Europe, including some of their consequential global impact. The chapters cover aspects of internationalism such as the importance of language, communication and infrastructures of internationalism; ways of grappling with the history of internationalism as a lived experience; and the roles of European actors in the formulation of different and often competing models of internationalism. It demonstrates that the success and failure of international programmes were dependent on participants' ability to communicate across linguistic but also political, cultural and economic borders. By bringing together commonly disconnected strands of European history and 'history from below', this volume rebalances and significantly advances the field, and promotes a deeper understanding of internationalism in its many historical guises. The volume is conceived as a way of thinking about internationalism that is relevant not just to scholars of Europe, but to international and global history more generally.
Download or read book Machinists Monthly Journal Official Organ of the International Association of Machinists written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International Solidarity in the Low Countries during the Twentieth Century written by Kim Christiaens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century, a variety of social movements and civil society groups stepped into the arena of international politics. This volume collects innovative research on international solidarity movements in Belgium and the Netherlands, and places these movements prominently in debates about the history of globalization, transnational activism, and international politics.
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Download or read book International Politics written by Cecil Delisle Burns and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International Bulletin of the Trade Union and Working Class Press written by World Federation of Trade Unions and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilsonian Century written by Frank Ninkovich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of this century, American foreign policy was guided by a set of assumptions that were formulated during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson. In this incisive reexamination, Frank Ninkovich argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a crusading, idealistic doctrine, was reactive, practical, and grounded in fear. Wilson and his successors believed it absolutely essential to guard against world war or global domination, with the underlying aim of safeguarding and nurturing political harmony and commercial cooperation among the great powers. As the world entered a period of unprecedented turbulence, Wilsonianism became a "crisis internationalism" dedicated to preserving the benign vision of "normal internationalism" with which the United States entered the twentieth century. In the process of describing Wilson's legacy, Ninkovich reinterprets most of the twentieth century's main foreign policy developments. He views the 1920s, for example, not as an isolationist period but as a reversion to Taft's Dollar Diplomacy. The Cold War, with its faraway military interventions, illustrates Wilsonian America's preoccupation with achieving a cohesive world opinion and its abandonment of traditional, regional conceptions of national interest. The Wilsonian Century offers a striking alternative to traditional interest-based interpretations of U.S. foreign policy. In revising the usual view of Wilson's contribution, Ninkovich shows the extraordinary degree to which Wilsonian ideas guided American policy through a century of conflict and tension. "[A] succinct but sweeping survey of American foreign relations from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. . . . [A] thought-provoking book."—Richard V. Damms, History "[W]orthy of sharing shelf space with George F. Kennan, William Appleman Williams, and other major foreign policy theorists."—Library Journal
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Trade Conference Held Under the Auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States of America in Co operation with Banking and Transportation Interests of the United States at New York City December 6 7 8 1915 written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Cooperation in Cold War Europe written by Daniel Stinsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to economic cooperation in Europe. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the UNECE. Building on the League of Nations' difficult heritage, and in an increasingly challenging political environment, the UNECE's mission was to facilitate European cooperation transcending the boundaries set by the Cold War . With a number of competitor organizations set against it, the UNECE managed to carve out a niche for itself, setting norms and standards that still have an impact on the everyday lives of millions in Europe and beyond today. Working against an overwhelming geopolitical trend, UNECE succeeded in bridging the Cold War divide on several occasions, and maintained a broad system of contacts across the Iron Curtain. This book provides a unique study of this important but hitherto under-researched international organization. Incorporating research on the Cold War, the history of internationalism and European integration, Stinsky weaves these different threads of historical enquiry into a single analytical narrative.
Download or read book The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
