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001			ocm1190838141
003			OCoLC
005			20220728162221.0
008			200819s2021 nyub e b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020037044
019			_a1267406144
020			_a9781524748234
035			_a(OCoLC)1190838141 _z(OCoLC)1267406144
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dBDX _dOCLCF _dJAS _dVP@ _dUKMGB _dOQX _dQX7 _dCG4 _dTCH _dGZD _dOCLCO _dCGB _dILC _dMiTN
050	0	0	_aGB659.6 _b.B63 2021
099			_a909 _aB
100	1		_aBoccaletti, Giulio, _d1974-
245	1	0	_aWater : _ba biography / _cGiulio Boccaletti.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2021]
300			_axiv, 378 pages : _bcolor maps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aMap on lining papers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index.
505	0		_aPart 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			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWater security.
650		0	_aWater-supply.
650		0	_aWater.
650		0	_aWater _xHistory.
650		0	_aWater _xPolitical aspects _xHistory.
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