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Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers (Environment in History: International Perspectives)

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Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning within the pre-up to date world, both rivers served as crucial trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, whilst also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In up to date times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” was integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism.  Furthermore, both rivers were drafted into service as the means to modernize the nation-state through hydropower and navigation. Regardless of being forced into submission for up to date-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist within the collective memory and continue to provide solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the surroundings, which adds every other lens to our working out of the past.

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