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Book Title: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures Of...
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters : Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Infrastructure, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Natural Resources, World / Asian
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lisa Björkman
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
