Tirthankar Roy

Gebundenes Buch

Water and Development

The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics

Beschreibung

Explores the idea that the economic emergence of societies in arid and semi-arid tropical regions depended on their ability to extract and recycle water and, in turn, on manipulating the environment in certain ways. The process has been politically tense and has tested federal democracies.

Autor

Tirthankar Roy is a professor of economic history at the London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the history and development of South Asia, global history, empires, and environmental history, and is the author of Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate (2022), Law and the Economy in Colonial India (with Anand Swamy, 2016), and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy (with Anand Swamy).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197802397
• ISBN-10: 0197802397
• Artikelnr.: 74177825