The Ideal River
How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order
Seiten
2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7870-1 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7870-1 (ISBN)
The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order. -- .
The environment has traditionally been a marginal concern in international relations, but the climate crisis has highlighted the importance of the relationship between society and the natural world.
In The ideal river, Joanne Yao offers a remarkable account of how nineteenth-century efforts to tame nature shaped our modern international order. Examining historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers – the Rhine, the Danube and the Congo – she reveals how the Enlightenment ambition to master the natural world has informed our geographical imagination of the international.
This idea of domination over nature shaped three concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state, imperial hierarchies and international organisations. As The ideal river shows, the relationship between society and nature is at the heart of international politics. -- .
The environment has traditionally been a marginal concern in international relations, but the climate crisis has highlighted the importance of the relationship between society and the natural world.
In The ideal river, Joanne Yao offers a remarkable account of how nineteenth-century efforts to tame nature shaped our modern international order. Examining historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers – the Rhine, the Danube and the Congo – she reveals how the Enlightenment ambition to master the natural world has informed our geographical imagination of the international.
This idea of domination over nature shaped three concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state, imperial hierarchies and international organisations. As The ideal river shows, the relationship between society and nature is at the heart of international politics. -- .
Joanne Yao is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London -- .
Introduction: the ideal river
1 The taming of nature, legitimate authority and international order
2 Taming the internal highway: constructing the Rhine
3 The 1815 Congress of Vienna and the oldest continuous interstate institution
4 Disciplining the connecting river: constructing the Danube
5 The 1856 Treaty of Paris and the first international organisation
6 Civilising the imperial river: constructing the Congo
7 The 1885 Berlin Conference and the international organisation that never was
8 History is a river: the taming of nature into the twenty-first century
Conclusion: the strong brown god of the Anthropocene
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 6 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 373 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7870-2 / 1526178702 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7870-1 / 9781526178701 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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