Water : a biography
Record details
- ISBN: 1524748234
- ISBN: 9781524748234
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Physical Description:
xiv, 378 pages : color maps ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Map on liner papers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-358) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I -- Origins -- Standing still in a world of moving water -- The rise of the hydraulic state -- Bronze Age globalization -- An article of faith -- The politics of Water -- Res Publica -- Part II -- A thousand years of convergence -- Fragments of the past -- The republic returns -- Water sovereignty -- American river republic -- Global water empire -- The great Utopian synthesis -- Part III -- The hydraulic century -- Setting the stage for revolution -- Crisis and its discontent -- industrializing modernity -- FDR's modernization project -- Cold War -- The great acceleration -- The end of an era -- Part IV -- Finale -- A world of scarcity -- A planetary experiment -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Subject: | Water Water security Water-supply Water Political aspects History Water History |
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