Cross and the River : Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile, Paperback by Erlich, Hag...

Description: Cross and the River : Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile, Paperback by Erlich, Haggai, ISBN 162637192X, ISBN-13 9781626371927, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Conceived in the late 1980s, and begun in 1995, after the great Ethiopian famine (due to a lack of water storage and a modern irrigation system), Erlich’s book aims to reconstruct cultural-conceptual developments beyond the concrete, ancient Ethiopian-Egyptian relations. While the two countries have no contiguous border, their histories continue to be interwoven because of water .86 percent of the water irrigating Egypt comes from Ethiopia and Ethiopia itself intends to use part of it; Ethiopian waters constitute by far the greater share of the Nile and are the source that produces the August floods that for millennia have irrigated the fields of Egypt; Egypt itself has practically no rain and contributes no water to the Nile, but it needs every drop. Ten chapters are: introduction: the crisis of the Nile; Christianity and Islam: the formative concepts; medieval prime: the legacies of the Solomonians and the Mamluks; modern rediscovery and fatal collision; nationalism and mutual perceptions; stormy redefinitions, 1; from compromise to disconnection, 1; Ethiopian concepts of Egypt, 1; Egyptian concepts of Ethiopia, 1; conclusion: the 1990s and the legacies of history. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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