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History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 2
Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times
History of Water, A, Series II, Volume 2
Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times
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Rivers and Society explores the ways in which human/river relations have shaped important historical transformation processes. With examples ranging from explorations of classical agrarian civilisations such as the Indus, Angkor and Maya, to analyses of the role of water in the modernisation process of countries such as Spain, Britain and Japan, the international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities.
Table of Contents
Part I:
Water Systems and Development
Chapter I: Terje Tvedt and Richard Coopey
A “Water Systems” Perspective on History
Part II:
Water systems and Agricultural Civilizations
Ch. 2 Gregory L. Possehl
The Indus Civilisation and Riverine History in Northwestern India and Pakistan
Ch. 3 Judith Bunbury
The Development of the River Nile and the Egyptian Civilisation: A Water Historical Perspective
Ch. 4 Terje Oestigaard
Osiris and the Egyptian Civilisation of Inundation. The Pyramids, the Pharaohs and
their Water World
Ch. 5 Richardson P. Gill
The Maya Collapse: Water, Drought and Volcanoes
Ch. 6 Dan Penny
The Mekong River System and the End of the Angkor Civilisation: A Water Historical Perspective
Ch. 7 Qiang Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, Tao Yang, Zhen-Chun Hao
The historical evolution and anthropogenic influences on the Yellow River from
ancient to modern times
Ch. 8 Richard C. Hoffman
Elemental Resources and Aquatic Ecosystems: Medieval Europeans and their Rivers
Ch. 9. Fred H. Lawson
Nile River Flows and Political Order in Ottoman Egypt
Ch. 10: Harriet Nash
The afl?j of Oman and traditional timing of water shares
Part III:
Water systems and Development in the Early Modern Era
Ch. 11 Jacobus De Vries
Water control in the Netherlands
Ch. 12 Toon Bosch
Changing societies produces changing rivers. Managing the Rhine in Germany and
Holland in a changing environment
Ch. 13 Roderick I. Wilson
River Regimes: Changing Environmental Relations along the Waterways of the
Kanto Plain, Japan
Ch. 14 Graham Chapman
Water and the British take-over of India
Ch. 15 Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus
The Neva as a Metropolitan River of Russia: Economy, Environment and Culture
Ch. 16 Miklos Domokos
A historic survey of the Danube catchment: From Classical civilisation to the
end of the 19th Century
Ch. 17 Richard Coopey
The Severn : Nature, Power and Rationalisation
Ch. 18 Eva Jakobsson
The history of flowing water policy in Sweden: from natural flow to
industrialised rivers
Ch. 19 Leandro del Moral Ituarte
The hydraulic paradigm and the production of a new geography in Spain. Origins and Historical Evolution Between the Sixteenth and Twentieth centuries.
Ch. 20 Salvatore Ciriacono
Venetian rivers after the fall of the republic. French and
Austrian Hydrology
Ch. 21 Martin Reuss
Exploitation and Innovation Along the Lower Mississippi
Water Systems and Development
Chapter I: Terje Tvedt and Richard Coopey
A “Water Systems” Perspective on History
Part II:
Water systems and Agricultural Civilizations
Ch. 2 Gregory L. Possehl
The Indus Civilisation and Riverine History in Northwestern India and Pakistan
Ch. 3 Judith Bunbury
The Development of the River Nile and the Egyptian Civilisation: A Water Historical Perspective
Ch. 4 Terje Oestigaard
Osiris and the Egyptian Civilisation of Inundation. The Pyramids, the Pharaohs and
their Water World
Ch. 5 Richardson P. Gill
The Maya Collapse: Water, Drought and Volcanoes
Ch. 6 Dan Penny
The Mekong River System and the End of the Angkor Civilisation: A Water Historical Perspective
Ch. 7 Qiang Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, Tao Yang, Zhen-Chun Hao
The historical evolution and anthropogenic influences on the Yellow River from
ancient to modern times
Ch. 8 Richard C. Hoffman
Elemental Resources and Aquatic Ecosystems: Medieval Europeans and their Rivers
Ch. 9. Fred H. Lawson
Nile River Flows and Political Order in Ottoman Egypt
Ch. 10: Harriet Nash
The afl?j of Oman and traditional timing of water shares
Part III:
Water systems and Development in the Early Modern Era
Ch. 11 Jacobus De Vries
Water control in the Netherlands
Ch. 12 Toon Bosch
Changing societies produces changing rivers. Managing the Rhine in Germany and
Holland in a changing environment
Ch. 13 Roderick I. Wilson
River Regimes: Changing Environmental Relations along the Waterways of the
Kanto Plain, Japan
Ch. 14 Graham Chapman
Water and the British take-over of India
Ch. 15 Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus
The Neva as a Metropolitan River of Russia: Economy, Environment and Culture
Ch. 16 Miklos Domokos
A historic survey of the Danube catchment: From Classical civilisation to the
end of the 19th Century
Ch. 17 Richard Coopey
The Severn : Nature, Power and Rationalisation
Ch. 18 Eva Jakobsson
The history of flowing water policy in Sweden: from natural flow to
industrialised rivers
Ch. 19 Leandro del Moral Ituarte
The hydraulic paradigm and the production of a new geography in Spain. Origins and Historical Evolution Between the Sixteenth and Twentieth centuries.
Ch. 20 Salvatore Ciriacono
Venetian rivers after the fall of the republic. French and
Austrian Hydrology
Ch. 21 Martin Reuss
Exploitation and Innovation Along the Lower Mississippi
Product details
| Published | Oct 30 2010 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 552 |
| ISBN | 9781848853508 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 97 b/w integrated & 10 figures |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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