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03100cam a22003738i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocm1190838141 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20220728162221.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200819s2021 nyub e b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2020037044 |
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1267406144 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781524748234 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1190838141 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1267406144 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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OCLCO |
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JAS |
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OCLCO |
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CGB |
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ILC |
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MiTN |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
GB659.6 |
| Item number |
.B63 2021 |
| 099 ## - LOCAL FREE-TEXT CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
909 |
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B |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boccaletti, Giulio, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1974- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Water : |
| Remainder of title |
a biography / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Giulio Boccaletti. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Pantheon Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2021] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 378 pages : |
| Other physical details |
color maps ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Map on lining papers. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Water security. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Water-supply. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Water. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Water |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Water |
| General subdivision |
Political aspects |
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History. |