The Delta Barrage - the Most Expensive Bridge of Its Time? The First Attempts at Taming the Nile

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Delta Barrage - the Most Expensive Bridge of Its Time? The First Attempts at Taming the Nile

Original language description

Tis article analyses the problems of the frst atempts at modernization of the Egyptian irrigation systems on the Nile River in 19th century. Te focus is on the construction of the barrage in the head of Delta. This project, commenced by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali (1805-1848), was intended to improve the irrigation of Delta and thus increase agricultural revenues, primarily with regard to the coton production. The engagement of French foreign advisors such as engineers Louis Maurice Linant de Bellefonds and Eugène Mougel in the frst phase of the project demonstrates the great influence France held over Muhammad Ali&apos;s Egypt. The involvement of British engineers Colin Scott-Moncrieff, William Reid and William Willcocks in the later phase of the project, which began in the 1860s, in contrast reflects British economic interests and the rising of Britain&apos;s dominance on the Nile.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Prague Papers on the History of International Relations

ISSN

1803-7356

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

21-31

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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