The River Nile in the Age of the British
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The River Nile in the Age of the British by Terje Tvedt
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 conceptualization, use and planning of the waters were revolutionized, and many of the most famous politicians of the 20th century - Churchill, Mussolini, Eisenhower, Eden, Nasser and Haile Selassie - played active parts in the Nile game, this work should stand as a case study of a much more general and acute question: the political ecology of trans-national river basins.
Times Literary Supplement: "a rich sampling of imperial rhetoric" "important and instructive book" "provides significant insights" The Middle East Magazine: "..dramatic story... a new interpretation of the rise and fall of the British Empire on the Nile... The book is also a history of how the lives of ordinary men and women living on the banks of the longest river in the world were impacted by high-level water politics."
Professor Terje Tvedt is Research Director in the Faculty of Social Science, University of Bergen and a Panel Member of UNESCO's World Water Assessment Programme.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860648359 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860648355 |
| Title | The River Nile in the Age of the British |
| Author | Terje Tvedt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2008-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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