Tirthankar Roy

Monsoon Economies

India's History in a Changing Climate

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Produktbeschreibung

"A radical new reading of the emergence of modern India, one in which the interaction between the environment and the economy takes the centerstage"--

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Produktdetails

• History for a Sustainable Future
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 134mm x 202mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780262543583
• ISBN-10: 0262543583
• Artikelnr.: 62161893

Autorenporträt

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India and coauthor of The Economic History of Colonialism and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xv
List of Illustrations xvii
1 Why Climate Matters 1
2 Water and Famine 25
3 Water and Equality 45
4 Becoming a Public Good 65
5 Water in the Cities 87
6 Water Stress 113
7 Seasonality 137
8 Monsoon Economies 167
Notes 177
Selected Readings 203
Index 207