Water : a biography
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Water : a biography
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The work Water : a biography represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Water : a biography
- Title remainder
- a biography
- Statement of responsibility
- Giulio Boccaletti
- Subject
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- Water
- Water
- Water -- History
- Water -- History
- Water -- Political aspects | History
- History
- Water security
- Water security
- Water-supply
- Water-supply
- Water -- Political aspects | History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply
- Language
- eng
- 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 these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion in population and the specialization of labor. We see how irrigation structure led to social structure--inventions like the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity; how, in Ancient Greece, communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experience dealing with water security was the seed for tax systems. And he makes clear how the modern world as we know it began with a legal structure for the development of water infrastructure. In its scope and clarity, Water: A Biography provides a fascinating framework through which we can more fully understand society's relationship to, and fundamental reliance on, the most elemental substance on our planet"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 909
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GB659.6
- LC item number
- .B63 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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