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Informationen zum Autor Allen F. Isaacman! Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota! USA and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape! South Africa! is the author of seven books! including Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution! The Zambezi Prazos! 1750-1902 (winner of the Melville J. Herskovits Award for the most distinguished publication in African Studies! 1972) and Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants! Work! and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 (Herskovits Award finalist! 1997). He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations! among others.Barbara S. Isaacman! a retired criminal defence attorney! lived and taught law in Mozambique at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane as Professor of Law in the late 1970s. She wrote Women! the Law and Agrarian Reform in Mozambique! and co-wrote several monographs on the history of Mozambique. Klappentext This in-depth study of the Zambezi River Valley examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the Cahora Bassa Dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam's shadow. Zusammenfassung This in-depth study of the Zambezi River Valley examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the Cahora Bassa Dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam’s shadow.
