Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 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,...