Water : a biography, Giulio Boccaletti

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Water : a biography, Giulio Boccaletti

Title remainder

a biography

Statement of responsibility

Giulio Boccaletti

Instantiates

• Water : a biography

Publication

• New York, Pantheon Books, 2021

Note

Map on lining papers

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier.

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent.

Contents

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 revollution -- 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

Control code

1190838141

Dimensions

25 cm.

Edition

First edition.

Extent

xiv, 378 pages

Isbn

9781524748234

Lccn

2020037044

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia.

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

color maps

Record ID

• .b44334758
• (OCoLC)1190838141