Introduction. Rivers on the Move / Bathsheba Demuth and Giacomo Parrinello 1 Part I. Restless Pasts 1. Ripples of the Missoula Megafloods / Summer Praetorius 21 2. Six Centuries of Polders: Transforming the Jianghan Plain in China / Hong Jiang and Ian Rutherford 41 3. Tracing the Urubamba: An Archaeohistory of and Andean River / R. Alexander Hunter 71 4. The Lower Mississippi River and the Novelty of Its Future Geology / Catherine Russell 89 Part II.

Fixing Rivers 5. Fixing the Rio Grande at the US-Mexico Border / Sarah Sears 109 6. Salmon, Imperial Formation, and the Creation of the Yukon River Border Zone, ca. 1900-1930 / Andreas Mentrup-Womelsdorf 127 7. The Politics of Sediment in the Nile's Aswan High Dam / Giacomo Parrinello and Santiago Gorostiza 151 Part III. Beyond Water 8. The Flying Rivers of Brazil / Douglas McRae 171 9. Colombia's Magdalena and the River as Labor / Valeria Mantilla Morales 189 10.

Rivers Without Water and the Colonization of Southern Africa / Anjuli Webster 207 Part IV. Unfixing Rivers 11. The Dammed Landscapes of Wild Rice Country on the Upper Mississippi / Elaine Stokes 225 12. The Island That Isn't an Island / J. Marty Holtgren and Caroline Gottschalk 245 13. River Restoration in Times of Climate Change / Francis J. Magilligan 263 Conclusion. Reimagining Rivers / Mark Healey and Laurence C.

Smith 277 Acknowledgments 281 Contributors 283 Index.