The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualization, use and planning of the waters were revolutionized, and many of the most famous politicians of the 20th century - Churchill, Mussolini, Eisenhower, Eden, Nasser and Haile Selassie - played active parts in the Nile game, this work should stand as a case study of a much more general and acute question: the political ecology of trans-national river basins.
- ISBN10 6612529563
- ISBN13 9786612529566
- Publish Date 13 June 2008 (first published 26 March 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 August 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint I. B. Tauris & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 456
- Language English