Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History - Hardcover

Sunil Amrith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241247055 ISBN 13: 9780241247051

Publisher: ALLEN LANE, 2018

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About the Author

Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. He is also the author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. He has been a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and in 2017 was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship.

Review

There is no disappointment here. Sunil Amrith consolidates his reputation for intellectual sophistication, a good historian's sensitivity to detail and a flare for large-scale tale-telling that produces work as page-turning as a novel... He handles the big questions fearlessly and elegantly, deploying oral history, a variety of archives and private collections and a properly global understanding...Read this book for information, for convincing analytic nuance, as a humbling shake-up of one's worldview, and as a series of heart-stopping tales. -- Praise for CROSSING THE BAY OF BENGAL: Caroline Osella * Times Higher Education * In refocusing on the Bay and restoring a Braudelian sweep to its history, this nicely written and meticulously researched study could prove as timely as it is instructive. -- Praise for CROSSING THE BAY OF BENGAL: John Keay * Literary Review *

Edition details

• Publisher: ALLEN LANE
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241247055
• ISBN 13: 9780241247051
• Binding: Hardcover