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This paper surveys the biggest river regulation of nineteenth-century Europe from new perspectives, examines its social and economic justification and tests the validity of the arguments buttressing the heroizing historical picture of the megaproject. By taking economic, enviro-historical and geopolitical perspectives it broadens the geo-historical picture attached to the symbol of nineteenth-century...
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