Water the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization
"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2011.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial ed. |
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| 005 | 20110401154100.0 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Solomon, Steven. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Water : |b the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization / |c Steven Solomon. |
| 250 | |a First Harper Perennial ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Harper Perennial, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 596 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-564) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The indispensable resource -- Water and the start of civilization -- Rivers, irrigation, and the earliest empires -- Seafaring, trade, and the making of the Mediterranean world -- The Grand Canal and the flourishing of Chinese civilization -- Islam, deserts, and the destiny of history's most water-fragile civilization -- Waterwheel, plow, cargo ship, and the awakening of Europe -- The voyages of discovery and the launch of the oceanic era -- Steam power, industry, and the Age of the British Empire -- The sanitary revolution -- Water frontiers and the emergence of the United States -- The canal to America's Century -- Giant dams, water abundance, and the rise of global society -- Water : the new oil -- Thicker than blood : the water-famished Middle East -- From have to have-not : mounting water distress in Asia's rising giants -- Opportunity from scarcity : the new policies of water in the industrial democracies. | |
| 520 | |a "A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Water and civilization. | |
| 938 | |a Baker and Taylor |b BTCP |n BK0009054195 | ||
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