Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Autor Sunil Amrithen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2018
From
a
MacArthur
"Genius,"
a
bold
new
perspective
on
the
history
of
Asia,
highlighting
the
long
quest
to
tame
its
waters
Asia's
history
has
been
shaped
by
her
waters.
InUnruly
Waters,
historian
Sunil
Amrith
reimagines
Asia's
history
through
the
stories
of
its
rains,
rivers,
coasts,
and
seas--and
of
the
weather-watchers
and
engineers,
mapmakers
and
farmers
who
have
sought
to
control
them.
Looking
out
from
India,
he
shows
how
dreams
and
fears
of
water
shaped
visions
of
political
independence
and
economic
development,
provoked
efforts
to
reshape
nature
through
dams
and
pumps,
and
unleashed
powerful
tensions
within
and
between
nations.
Today,
Asian
nations
are
racing
to
construct
hundreds
of
dams
in
the
Himalayas,
with
dire
environmental
impacts;
hundreds
of
millions
crowd
into
coastal
cities
threatened
by
cyclones
and
storm
surges.
In
an
age
of
climate
change,Unruly
Watersis
essential
reading
for
anyone
seeking
to
understand
Asia's
past
and
its
future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465097722
ISBN-10: 0465097723
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 165 x 243 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465097723
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 165 x 243 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Sunil
Amrithis
the
Mehra
Family
Professor
of
South
Asian
Studies
and
Professor
of
History
at
Harvard
University
and
a
2017
MacArthur
Fellow.
The
prize-winning
author
ofCrossing
the
Bay
of
Bengal(2013),
as
well
as
several
other
books
and
articles,
he
lives
in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Recenzii
"A
compelling
history
of
India
over
the
last
200
years
mostly
describing
how
its
people
and
rulers
have
dealt
with
the
weather.
"—Kirkus
Reviews,
starred
review
"When confronted with tragedy, the modernist project has always retreated behind the sober voice of science. There is no more vivid description of this encounter than Sunil Amrith's wonderful new book, nor a better example of combining sympathy for the main protagonists---the planners, the engineers, the meteorologists---with a sustained sense of how, with the best of intentions, things can go horribly wrong."—Abhijit V. Banerjee,coauthor ofPoor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
"In this groundbreaking work, Sunil Amrith deftly and imaginatively steers us towards an understanding of both water's worldly historical importance and its sublime capacity to exceed the human scale. Between its haunting opening pages and chilling epilogue, Amrith's sensitive, deeply engaging, and densely woven narrative reminds us that the present water crisis is the legacy of a colonial past---not of the peculiarities of Asian people and climate. This is a politically urgent book that shows the need to tell more expansive histories to help us address climate risks that transcend national borders."—Priya Satia,
"Across Asia, water is power. Sunil Amrith'sUnruly Watersis a gripping work, both timely and necessary, that captures the forces at work in the struggle to control Asia's water. From cultural influences of colonial empire engineering to atmospheric chemistry in a time of climate change, Amrith reveals all that is at stake for half the planet's population."—Meera Subramanian,author ofA River Runs Again
"When confronted with tragedy, the modernist project has always retreated behind the sober voice of science. There is no more vivid description of this encounter than Sunil Amrith's wonderful new book, nor a better example of combining sympathy for the main protagonists---the planners, the engineers, the meteorologists---with a sustained sense of how, with the best of intentions, things can go horribly wrong."—Abhijit V. Banerjee,coauthor ofPoor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
"In this groundbreaking work, Sunil Amrith deftly and imaginatively steers us towards an understanding of both water's worldly historical importance and its sublime capacity to exceed the human scale. Between its haunting opening pages and chilling epilogue, Amrith's sensitive, deeply engaging, and densely woven narrative reminds us that the present water crisis is the legacy of a colonial past---not of the peculiarities of Asian people and climate. This is a politically urgent book that shows the need to tell more expansive histories to help us address climate risks that transcend national borders."—Priya Satia,
author
ofEmpire
of
Guns:
The
Violent
Making
of
the
Industrial
Revolution
"Across Asia, water is power. Sunil Amrith'sUnruly Watersis a gripping work, both timely and necessary, that captures the forces at work in the struggle to control Asia's water. From cultural influences of colonial empire engineering to atmospheric chemistry in a time of climate change, Amrith reveals all that is at stake for half the planet's population."—Meera Subramanian,author ofA River Runs Again