Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil

Author/Contributor(s):	Blanc, Jacob
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam--the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world--on the Brazil-Paraguay border during the 1970s and 1980s to explore the long-standing conflicts around land, rights, indigeneity, and identity in rural Brazil.