The Range of the River
Iftekhar Iqbal
Gebundenes Buch

The Range of the River

A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia

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"Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system - including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi - forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these vast waterways and the empires, human actors, and other-than-human forces that have shaped Asia since the 1850s. Both ethnodiverse and biodiverse, these rivers were more than contested imperial spaces - they were also channels of communal and ma...