The River Nile in the Age of the British Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power |
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| Author:
| Tvedt, Terje |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-52956-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionThe 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."