The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019Description: xi, 244 p., ill.; 24 cmISBN:- 9781503609655
- River engineering -- Egypt -- History
- Irrigation engineering -- Egypt -- History
- Dams -- Environmental aspects -- Egypt -- History
- Irrigation farming -- Health aspects -- Egypt -- History
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Egypt -- History
- Nile River -- History
- Aswan Dam (Egypt) -- History
- Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936
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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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