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""Dale Stahl reimagines the history of Iraq and its wider region by placing at its center the two rivers from which the country was formed. The work of statesmen, armies, engineers, and poets tangled with riverine forces, he shows, and was entangled by them. An impressive retelling of the making of modern Iraq."" --Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University ""Two Rivers Entangled offers a far-reaching exploration of how the societies and biophysical systems of the Tigris-Euphrates are deeply bound together in conceptual, ideological, and material ways. This history of 'modern' rivers makes a superb meditation on complex biophysical, technical, and human networks and how these entanglements come into being."" --Christopher Sneddon, Dartmouth College ""Dale Stahl's account of the Tigris and Euphrates crosses borders and breaks new ground in a connected history of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Elementally grounded and poetically conceived, Two Rivers Entangled traces people's dreams of transforming the waters, how the rivers defied these efforts, and what this has all meant for the politics of people living beside them."" --Samuel Dolbee, Vanderbilt University

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Dale J. Stahl is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver.

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