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The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019Description: xi, 244 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781503609655
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Contents:
Introduction : a river, remade : making subjects on the perennial Nile -- Nile articulations : decolonizing the history of irrigation engineering -- The dammed Nile : the thirty-year project to build Khazan Aswan -- Beyond the frontier : negotiating the geography of authority in Egypt's south -- Cruel summer : environmental labors and the scales of subject making -- Treated subjects : irrigating the veins of the nation -- Conclusion : the afterlives of the perennial subject.
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Books Books Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 G 842 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G 842

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-229) and index.

Introduction : a river, remade : making subjects on the perennial Nile -- Nile articulations : decolonizing the history of irrigation engineering -- The dammed Nile : the thirty-year project to build Khazan Aswan -- Beyond the frontier : negotiating the geography of authority in Egypt's south -- Cruel summer : environmental labors and the scales of subject making -- Treated subjects : irrigating the veins of the nation -- Conclusion : the afterlives of the perennial subject.

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