Ideal River

Ideal River

How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order

Yao, Joanne

Manchester University Press

04/2024

264

Mole

9781526178701

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: the ideal river
1 The taming of nature, legitimate authority and international order
2 Taming the internal highway: constructing the Rhine
3 The 1815 Congress of Vienna and the oldest continuous interstate institution
4 Disciplining the connecting river: constructing the Danube
5 The 1856 Treaty of Paris and the first international organisation
6 Civilising the imperial river: constructing the Congo
7 The 1885 Berlin Conference and the international organisation that never was
8 History is a river: the taming of nature into the twenty-first century
Conclusion: the strong brown god of the Anthropocene
Index -- .
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international organisations; environmental history; global governance; hierarchies; sovereign state; imperialism; Standards of Civilization; Rhine; Danube; Congo