Henk-Jan Dekker. Review of Romero Sommer, Gonzalo, High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru

BOOK REVIEW

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High Voltage: Hydroelectric Development and Political Power in Peru
by Gonzalo Romero Sommer

University of Nebraska Press
2025. 298 pp
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-3512-1.

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Reviewed by Henk-Jan Dekker (Bielefeld University)

It is quite common for historical accounts of electrification to focus either on urban or rural electrification. The relationship between the two and the ways urban-rural relationships are defined and reconfigured in the process of electrification are less often put front and center. One of the strengths of Gonzalo Romero Sommer