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Water : a biography

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Summary
"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how ... Read more
Contents
Part I -- Origins -- Standing still in a world of moving water -- The rise of the hydraulic state -- Bronze Abe globalization -- An article of faith -- The politics of Water -- Res Publica -- Part II -- A thousand years of convergence -- Fragments... Read more
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Description
xiv, 378 pages : color maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
Pantheon Books 2021

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 909 BOC in Adult Non-fiction Available
Peninsula Community Library 909 BOC in Adult Available

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