David Gilmartin

Blood and Water

The Indus River Basin in Modern History

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The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and environmental transformations that continued after the 1947 creation of the new states of India and Pakistan. In this first large-scale environmental history of the region, David Gilmartin focuses on the changes that occurred in the basin as a result of the implementation of the world's largest modern integrated irrigation system. This masterf… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-520-96083-1
EAN: 9780520960831
Produktnummer: 21596617
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 376 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'033 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University and the author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan.