Author: COREY ROSS
In the 19th and 20th centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet.
These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. “Liquid Empire” tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism, and how this imperial past still haunts us today.
