No international river basin has a longer, complex and more eventful history than the Nile. It has provided the state on which regional and global politics have been played out over many centuries. Terje Tvedt tells the story of the Nile when many of the most famous politicians of the twentieth century - including Churchill, Eisenhower, Mussolini, Nasser, Eden and Haile Selassie - were involved in the Nile game and when the conceptualisation, use and planning of the waters were revolutionized. Setting aside traditional explanations of British policy on the Nile, the author yields new insights with implications for our understanding of the region's history, the rise and fall of European colonialism, the partition of Africa, and river basin management in general. The River Nile in the Age of the British is a work of outstanding scholarship that is essential reading for scholars and specialists in political geography, international relations and the Middle East. Book jacket.