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Water and Society

Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development

AvTerje Tvedt

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

329 kr

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In this book, historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt's Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development.

Nile

History's Greatest River

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

571 kr

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“[A] vivid travelogue.” New Statesman“Has much to offer.” The Spectator"Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine “Essential reading." All About History"Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times Literary SupplementThe greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, The Nile is also the story of water as it nourished a civilization.

Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats?

NGOs and Foreign Aid

AvTerje Tvedt

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

317 kr

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Challenges many of the dominant beliefs in the discourse on development and aid.Is the world witnessing a global associational revolution spearheaded by development non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Is the relationship between states and societies being more fundamentally redefined, even in remote, ruralcorners of the world? What role does the mushrooming of development NGOs play in this political-ideological process? What about NGO staff? Are they angels of mercy, government-paid development diplomats, propagandists for a triumphant West, or instruments in a coming clash between civilizations? Presented here are cases from Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Bangladesh and Nicaragua that shed light on these complex questions. The text puts forward a critique of central theories and concepts which have dominated research and discourse on development NGOs. It also proposes and demonstrates some different analytical approaches.North America: Africa World Press

Nile

History's Greatest River

AvTerje Tvedt

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

245 kr

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History of Water: Series III, Volume 1

Water and Urbanization

AvTerje Tvedt,Terje Oestigaard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

1 833 kr

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With empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the three volumes together represent one of the most complete and up to date accounts of the central role of water in the history and development of humanity.

History of Water, Series III, Volume 2: Sovereignty and International Water Law

AvTerje Tvedt,Tadesse Kasse Woldetsadikm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

1 687 kr

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As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging. One of the most important principles being reassessed is the sovereign equality of states. This volume brings together more than thirty leading international water and legal specialists to explore the development and changing relationship between water, state sovereignty and international law. Offering fresh insights into one of the most pressing issues in global water policy, Sovereignty and International Water Law will form an essential reference for water professionals, legal specialists and policy makers alike.

History of Water: Series III, Volume 3

Water and Food

AvTerje Tvedt,Terje Oestigaard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 833 kr

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Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural production are present and the sheer size of the continent offers wide ecological variation from extreme desert to dense rainforest. Drawing together leading international contributors from a wide variety of disciplines Water and Food offers new insights into the evolution of food systems, from early hunter gatherers to the global challenges of the modern world.

Water and Society

Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

1 833 kr

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Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development."

River Nile in the Age of the British

Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power

AvTerje Tvedt

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

461 kr

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The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualisation, use and planning of the waters were revolutionised, and many of the most famous politicians of the twentieth century Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Gamal Abdul Nasser and Haile Selassie played active parts in the Nile game, this work will stand as a case study of a much more general and acute question: the political ecology of transnational river basins."

River Nile in the Post-colonial Age

Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

1 373 kr

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The Nile Basin is a vast and varied area of 350 million people. Parts of the basin have become the very symbols of African misery, suffering drought, genocide, state failure and aid dependency. At its heart lies the Nile itself. Yet whilst the importance of the river is well documented for the colonial period there is no comprehensive account of its management after independence. "The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age" details the modern development of the Nile Basin and the efforts to manage its waters. With important new material by researchers from each of the countries through which the Nile passes, it provides an indispensable aid to understanding the complex history of the basin, the politics surrounding it and the efforts being made to jointly manage it.

History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1

Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World

AvTerje Tvedt,T. Oestigard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

1 888 kr

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How has water been perceived in different societies and across different eras of world history? How have these changing conceptions informed and influenced our ideas about society and ourselves? In "The Idea of Water" leading international scholars explore the rich record of our ideas, from the beliefs of early societies to the latest scientific views on the nature of this unique substance. Ranging across all aspects - scientific, cultural and religious - this important work both challenges conventional interpretations and understanding of water in nature and represents one of the first attempts to provide a history of our changing conceptions of the role and significance of water in human society.

History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 2

Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times

AvTerje Tvedt,Richard Coopey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

1 888 kr

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Rivers and Society explores the ways in which human/river relations have shaped important historical transformation processes. With examples ranging from explorations of classical agrarian civilisations such as the Indus, Angkor and Maya, to analyses of the role of water in the modernisation process of countries such as Spain, Britain and Japan, the international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities.

History of Water: Series I, Volume 1

Water Control and River Biographies

AvTerje Tvedt,Eva Jakobsson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

1 888 kr

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This volume is the first of three that explore all aspects of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. The contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good; the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level; water in cities; great river plans; dams; river biographies; and images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature.

Series 1

The Political Economy of Water

AvR. Coopey,Terje Tvedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

2 236 kr

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This volume is the second of three that explore all aspects of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. The contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good; the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level; water in cities; great river plans; dams; river biographies; and images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature.

A History of Water: Series I, Volume 3: The World of Water

AvTerje Tvedt,T. Ostigaard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

1 833 kr

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Nile

An Annotated Bibliography

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

1 833 kr

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This bibliography provides a comphrehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic and developmental aspects of the Nile. All disciplines are covered, including geography, history, anthropology and medicine; travel literature, planning and project literature produced by government bodies, international agencies and consultancy firms, and literature on basin-wide planning, water agreements and water need assessments for sectors and countries. If the Nile basin countries are to pursue co-operation and development successfully, dissemination of information about the river to all countries is crucial.

Der Nil

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Tyska, 2021

405 kr

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Det internationella genombrottet : Norge från nationalstat till multikultir

AvTerje Tvedt

Inbunden, Svenska, 2019

237 kr

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Under 1800-talet genomgick Norge vad som brukar kallas det nationella genombrottet , ett uppsving för inhemsk kultur som 1905 ledde fram till brytningen med Sverige och en självständig stat.

Från 1960-talet och framåt genomgick Norge vad historikern Terje Tvedt kallar det internationella genombrottet . Under denna tid upplevde landet något som bara kan beskrivas som revolutionerande förändringar. Norge, som dittills varit ett av världens mest etniskt, kulturellt och religiöst homogena länder gick mycket långt i den rakt motsatta riktningen, då en stor mängd migranter anlände från Afrika, Asien och Latinamerika.

Samtidigt som världen på detta sätt kom till Norge, kom Norge till världen i form av internationellt bistånd, diplomati och militära ingripanden.

Det internationella genombrottet är en inträngande historisk analys av hur denna unika omvälvning gick till, hur den motiverades och hur den har förvandlat det skandinaviska landet. Boken är en av det senaste årets mest uppmärksammade och omdebatterade politiska böcker i Norge.

OM FÖRFATTARENTerje Tvedt är författare och dokumentärfilmare. Han har publicerat ca 20 böcker, på norska och engelska, och producerat en rad dokumentärfilmer för norsk public service-TV, bland om vattnets historia. Terje Tvedt är professor vid Institutet för arkeologi, konservering och historia vid universitetet i Oslo, och vid institutet för geografi vid universitetet i Bergen.

OM BOKEN"En viktig, lättläst, spännande och tankeväckande bok som förtjänar den uppmärksamhet den fått och mer därtill ... en mäktig uppvisning av historikerfackets relevans för förståelsen av vår samtid." fritanke.no

"Terje Tvedt är som nya glasögon som gör att världen står fram i ett klarare ljus. Hans bok går inte att komma undan om man vill förstå norsk samtid." Trønder-Avisa

"Ett lekfullt, provocerande och uppfriskande vattenbad ... man blir lycklig över att det finns författare som ser Norge och världen med så friska och nya ögon." Dag og Tid

"Den grundligaste och mest avslöjande analysen av vår samtid jag har sett formulerad." Fædrelandsvennen

"Många ser fram emot en ny bok av Terje Tvedt med samma skälvande förväntningar som då de i sin ungdom väntade på nästa LP från Rolling Stones, The Who eller något annat band som uppfattades som anti-establishment." Morgenbladet

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Terje Tvedt – författare

Water and Society

Nile

Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats?

Nile

History of Water: Series III, Volume 1

History of Water, Series III, Volume 2: Sovereignty and International Water Law

History of Water: Series III, Volume 3

Water and Society

River Nile in the Age of the British

River Nile in the Post-colonial Age

History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 1

History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 2

History of Water: Series I, Volume 1

Series 1

A History of Water: Series I, Volume 3: The World of Water

Nile

Der Nil

Det internationella genombrottet : Norge från nationalstat till multikultir

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