1. A Global History of Dams: of Biases, Bottlenecks, and Blind Spots, Vincent Lagendijk and Frederik Schulze (Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and University of Bielefeld, Germany) Part I: Centres of Expertise 2. New Centres of Knowledge: The Emergence of Latin American Dam-Building in the Twentieth Century, Frederik Schulze (University of Bielefeld, Germany) 3. A Global History of Czechoslovak Dam-Building Expertise (1930s-1990s), Jirí Janác and Jakub Mazanec (Univerzita Karlova Prague, Czech Republic) 4. A Cohort of Their Own: Indian Hydraulic Engineers as Interlocuters of Dams and Development, Ramya Swayamprakash (Grand Valley State University, USA) 5. Colonialism, Internationalism and Nationalism: Dam-Building in Global China, Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design, USA) Part II: Globalising the Nation 6. Damming the Konkouré River: the Entangled History of Planning, Failure and Revival of a Dam Project in (French) Guinea, Birte Förster (University of Bielefeld, Germany) 7. "An Asp in the Bosom at Home, a Dove of Peace Abroad": The Dichotomous Image of the Tennessee Val-ley Authority, Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) 8.

The Global Entanglements of Ghana's Volta River Project, Stephan Miescher (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 9. Linking the Global to the Nation? Spanish Dams as Transistors of Political Power from the 1950s to the 1970s, Benjamin Brendel (Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany) Part III: Violent Practices and Peaceful Discourses 10. Proletarian Poetry Made Concrete: Global Entanglements of an Uzbek Dam in the Aral Sea Basin, Flora Roberts (Cardiff University, UK) 11. Exporting Hydro Expertise and Settler Colonialism: Damming Narratives in U.S. Professional Communication, Jane Griffith (X University Toronto, Canada) 12. Dams, Displacement, and Anthropological Expertise in Mexico after 1940, Diana Schwartz Francisco (The University of Chicago, USA) Epilogue 13. Reflections on a Global History of Dams, Corinna Unger (European University Institute Florence, Italy) Index.