Sunil Amrith

From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.

How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

Unruly Waters

Antoinette Burton

Sarah Nuttall

Carolyn Hamilton

Pumla Dineo Gqola

Gabeba Baderoon

Lakshmi Subramanian

Ranka Primorac

James Ogude

Meg Samuelson

Karin Barber

Charne Lavery

Khwezi Mkhize

Christopher EW Ouma

Rimli Bhattacharya

Danai S Mupotsa

Madhumita Lahiri

This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work

Reading from the South

Tim Harper

This book sheds light on the history of political and religious globalisation in modern Asia, transcending both national and imperial boundaries, while expanding the range of methodologies and sources brought to bear on studying Asia's modernity. It illuminates how ideas travelled across Asia, and how they changed in the process.

Ideas, Networks and Mobility

Sites of Asian Interaction

Sunil Amrith

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