Jennifer L. Derr

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt - xi, 244 p., ill.; 24 cm

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.

9781503609655


River engineering--History--Egypt
Irrigation engineering--History--Egypt
Dams--Environmental aspects--History--Egypt
Irrigation farming--Health aspects--History--Egypt
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--Egypt


Nile River--History
Aswan Dam (Egypt)--History
Egypt--History--British occupation, 1882-1936