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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Water and Empire -- Chapter 1. Fluid Networks: Water, Mobility and the Infrastructure of Empire -- Channels of Empire -- Waterways and Railways -- Coastlines and Commerce -- Chapter 2. Mastering the Monsoon: Seasonality and the Rise of Perennial Irrigation -- Irrigation, Improvement and Improvisation in Colonial Asia -- Water, Welfare and the Costs of Irrigation -- The Rhythm of the Nile -- Chapter 3. Wastelands and Water: Hydraulic Frontiers and the Expansion of Imperial Power -- Swamps and Settlers -- Making the Desert Bloom -- Canals and Colonies -- Chapter 4. Deluge and Disaster: The Colonial Politics of Flood Control -- Floods, Property and Protection in Colonial India -- Deluges, Dikes and Dependency in Colonial Indochina -- Chapter 5. Under the Surface: Fisheries and Colonial Development -- Control and Conservation -- Modernization and the Marine Frontier -- Cultivating the Waters -- Chapter 6. Water, Colonial Cities and the Civilizing Mission -- The Origins and Emergence of Colonial Sanitation Works -- Environmental Adaptation and Social Opposition -- Sanitation, Fragmentation, Discrimination -- Chapter 7. Water and Energy: The Development of Colonial Hydropower -- The Roots and Rise of Colonial Hydropower -- Scaling Up, Spreading Out: Colonial Hydropower between the World Wars -- Hydropowered Development -- Chapter 8. Ebb of Empire: Decolonization and the Hydraulic Remnants of Colonialism -- Basins and Boundaries -- Dams and Development -- Water, Sanitation and the Post-Colonial City -- Decolonization and the Ocean Frontier -- Epilogue. Water, Climate and the Legacies of Empire -- Bibliography -- Index.

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