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.