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The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia

The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia

Iqbal, Iftekhar

Hardcover

General World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1503641996
ISBN13: 9781503641990
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system--including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi--forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these vast waterways and the empires, human actors, and other-than-human forces that have shaped Asia since the 1850s. Both ethnodiverse and biodiverse, these rivers were more than contested imperial spaces--they were also channels of communal and material exchange, linking near and distant contact zones. They fostered connections across Asia, driving commerce, mobility, and cultural encounters that transformed them into shared, living commons bridging societies, political powers, and economic interests.

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