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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2011.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
