Coming from Penn Press on October 27, my first book: 

Contested Currents: 

Rivers and the Remaking of New England

A Bloomberg's Fall 2026 Most Anticipated Non-Fiction Book!

By tracing the violent story behind the first dams to cross American rivers, Contested Currents uncovers a new perspective on the origins of capitalism and the environmental movement in America.  

"In this engaging and original new book, Zachary M. Bennett takes readers on a journey through New England’s rivers over centuries of colonization, encouraging us to see the region’s waterways as sites and sources of power. A marvelous achievement."

—Andrew Lipman, author of The Saltwater Frontier and Squanto: A Native Odyssey 

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