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_aSolomon, Steven. _9152035 |
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_aWater : _bthe epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization / _cSteven Solomon. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNew York, NY : _bHarper Perennial, _cc2011. |
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_ax, 596 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm. |
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| 500 | _aOriginally published in hardback: New York, NY :Harper,c2010. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical reference (p. [501]-564) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aWater in ancient history. 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 -- Water and the ascendancy of the West. 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 -- Water and the making of the modern industrial society. 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 -- The age of scarcity. 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. | |
| 520 | _a"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher. | ||
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_aWater and civilization. _9152036 |
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