Unruly Waters

Author : Sunil Amrith
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465097731
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Sunil Amrith and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Unruly 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 Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.

Author : Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355889
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Kenna Lang Archer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.

Author : Sunil Amrith
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780141982632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Sunil Amrith and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly 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 Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only Asia's past and its future.

Author : SUNIL. AMRITH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780241247051
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UNRULY WATERS written by SUNIL. AMRITH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sunil S. Amrith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541644779
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Sunil S. Amrith and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Unruly 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 Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.

Author : Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355870
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Kenna Lang Archer and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235643
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Asian Waters written by Eric Tagliacozzo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an indelible mark on the modern world in the process. Paying special attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and East Africa, the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of Bengal, and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to the spice trade, how the Indian Ocean became a “British lake” between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and how lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism. The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule the waves of Asia, as Britain once did. A novel account showing how Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in the present.

Author : Enrico Fels
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319261525
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters written by Enrico Fels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive and empirically rich analysis of regional maritime disputes in the South China Sea (SCS). By discussing important aspects of the rise of China’s maritime power, such as territorial disputes, altered perceptions of geo-politics and challenges to the US-led regional order, the authors demonstrate that a regional power shift is taking place in Asia-Pacific. The volume also provides in-depth discussions of the responses to Chinese actions by SCS claimants as well as by important non-claimant actors.

Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052565917X
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth Transformed written by Peter Frankopan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time *The ebook edition now includes endnotes. Anyone who purchased the book previously can re-download this updated edition and access the notes.* Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us. Frankopan explains how the Vikings emerged thanks to catastrophic crop failure, why the roots of regime change in eleventh-century Baghdad lay in the collapse of cotton prices resulting from unusual climate patterns, and why the western expansion of the frontiers in North America was directly affected by solar flare activity in the eighteenth century. Again and again, Frankopan shows that when past empires have failed to act sustainably, they have been met with catastrophe. Blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge scientific research, The Earth Transformed will radically reframe the way we look at the world and our future.

Author : Rev. Prof. John Gray M.A., B.D., Ph.D.
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004275282
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy of Canaan written by Rev. Prof. John Gray M.A., B.D., Ph.D. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- UGARIT AND ITS RECORDS /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- MYTHS OF THE FERTILITY CULT /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- SAGA AND LEGEND /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- THE RELIGION OF CANAAN /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- THE SOCIAL ORDER /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- CONCORDANCE OF UGARITIC TEXTS /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- INDEX OF UGARITIC PASSAGES /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- INDEX OF UGARITIC WORDS /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- SUBJECT INDEX /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- AUTHOR'S INDEX /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN -- INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES /Editors THE LEGACY OF CANAAN.