Terje Tvedt

The River Nile in the Age of the British (eBook, PDF)

Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857716507
• Artikelnr.: 39141429

Autorenporträt

Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and has been Professor of Political Science and of Global History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on water-related topics. His books include The River Nile in the Age of the British (2004), A Journey in the Future of Water (2013), and he is the Series Editor of the pioneering History of Water series. He has also made three award-winning TV-documentaries on water: A Journey in the History of Water, The Future of Water and The Nile Quest.