Title:
Water : the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization / Steven Solomon.
Author:
Solomon, Steven.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2010.
Call Number:
CB482 .S65 2010
Abstract:
"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780060548308
Physical Description:
x, 596 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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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 for scarcity : the new policies of water in the industrial democracies.
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