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Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

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Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Product Name: Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 04/21/2020 0:00
ISBN: 0316412007
Pages: 368
SKU: 9780316412001
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      Rivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. They have opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power, and can capriciously destroy everything in their path. Even today, rivers remain a powerful global force -- one that is more critical than ever to our future.

      In Rivers of Power, geographer Laurence C. Smith explores the timeless and vastly underappreciated relationship between rivers and civilization as we know it. Rivers are of course important in many practical ways (water supply, transportation, sanitation). But the full breadth of their profound influence on the way we live is less obvious. Rivers define and transcend international borders, forcing cooperation between nations. Huge volumes of river water are used to produce energy, raw commodities, and food. Wars, politics, and demography are transformed by their devastating floods. The territorial claims of nations, their cultural and economic ties to each other, and the migrations and histories of their peoples trace back to rivers, river valleys, and the topographic divides they carve upon the world.

      Beautifully told and expansive in scope, Rivers of Power reveals how and why rivers have so profoundly influenced our civilization, and examines the importance this vast, arterial power holds for our present, past, and future.

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      Publisher: Little Brown & Company
      Product Name: Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
      Author: Laurence C. Smith
      Language: English
      Format: Hardcover
      Publication Date: 04/21/2020 0:00
      ISBN: 9780316412001
      Pages: 368
      Publisher: Little Brown & Company
      Product Name: Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
      Author: Laurence C. Smith
      Language: English
      Format: Hardcover
      Publication Date: 04/21/2020 0:00
      ISBN: 0316412007
      Pages: 368

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