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The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order

Joanne Yao

PublishedDec 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish

This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today.