River Nile in the Age of the British, The :Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power

Publication subTitle :Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power

Author: Tvedt Terje  

Publisher: I.B.Tauris‎

Publication year: 2004

E-ISBN: 9780857716507

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781860648359

Subject: K405 modern history

Keyword: 政治理论,地球物理学,自然地理学

Language: ENG

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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 - Churchill, Mussolini, Eisenhower, Eden, 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 trans-national river basins.

Chapter

Part I - A River Conquered

1. River Imperialism

2. A British Nile

Part II - A River Empire

3. The Nile as Stick and Carrot

4. Nile Diplomacy, Bog Barons and War

Part III - Collapse of a River Empire

5. The Nile and Imperial Collapse

6. Nasser's Aswan High Dam - Hydropolitics as World History

7. A Last Roar - Turning the Nile Against Nasser

Part IV - The Legacy

Epilogue

Notes on the Text

Bibliography

Index

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