Before the deluge
Subtitle: the vanishing world of the Yangtze's Three Gorges
By: Deidre Chetham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781403964281
Subjects: Dams; Design and construction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: Chapter 1 The Towns 7; title: Chapter 2 History and Myth 31; title: Chapter 3 Traditional Life 49; title: Chapter 4 Outside Pressures 71; title: Chapter 5 Change from Within 91; title: Chapter 6 War Along the Yangtze 107; title: Chapter 7 Remaking Man and Nature 125; title: Chapter 8 Decisions and Delays 145; title: Chapter 9 New Currents 163; title: Chapter 10 The Dam 177; title: Chapter 11 From Past to Present 203; title: Chapter 12 The Eve of the Flood 219