| The River Nile in the Age of the British: Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power Contributor(s): Tvedt, Terje (Author) |
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ISBN: 178453627X ISBN-13: 9781784536275 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt) - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Science | Earth Sciences - Limnology |
| Dewey: 962 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualisation, use and planning of the waters were revolutionised, and many of the most famous politicians of the twentieth century Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Gamal Abdul Nasser and Haile Selassie played active parts in the Nile game, this work will stand as a case study of a much more general and acute question: the political ecology of transnational river basins. |