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Review of Breyfogle & Brown eds., Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History | Jenia Mukherjee

Saturday 7 December 2024

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]

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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History

by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Philip C. Brown (Editors)

Oregon State University Press
2023. x + 249 pp
(paper) ISBN 978-0-87071-237-1

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Reviewed by Jenia Mukherjee

What is water? Is it H2O or bottled profit