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

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In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia and filling the irrigation canals that flowed from the river, the perennial Nile not only reshaped agriculture and the envir...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Derr, Jennifer L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Egypt > History.
Dams > Environmental aspects > Egypt > History.
Irrigation engineering > Egypt > History.
Irrigation farming > Health aspects > Egypt > History.
River engineering > Egypt > History.
HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt).
Nile River.
colonial economy.
dam.
engineering.
hookworm.
irrigation.
pellagra.
public health.
schistosomiasis.
subjectivity.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • INTRODUCTION. A River, Remade: Making Subjects on the Perennial Nile
  • 1. Nile Articulations: Decolonizing the History of Irrigation Engineering
  • 2. The Dammed Nile: The Thirty-Year Project to Build Khazan Aswan
  • 3. Beyond the Frontier: Negotiating the Geography of Authority in Egypt's South
  • 4. Cruel Summer: Environmental Labors and the Scales of Subject Making
  • 5. Treated Subjects: Irrigating the Veins of the Nation
  • CONCLUSION. The Afterlives of the Perennial Subject
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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