TY  - BOOK
AU  - Middleton,Nick
TI  - Rivers: a very short introduction 
SN  - 9780199588671
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rivers
KW  - Rivers in art
KW  - Rivers in literature
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121) and index; Nature's driver -- Sacred flows -- Liquid histories -- Roads that move -- Tamed rivers
N2  - Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, bearing trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This volume is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. The author, a geographer covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography and mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Offering a truly global look at rivers including the Amazon, the Ganges, the Danube, and the Mississippi, with examples from all continents, including Egypt, India, and Bangladesh, he considers the role that rivers have played in human history from settlements and trade to warfare, and also looks at the human impact upon rivers by the construction of dams and cutting of channels
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