Call number:
PIK T 240-14-0135
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Part 1 - Water in anciet history ; 1 The indispensible resource ; 2 Water and the start of civilization ; 3 Rivers, irrigation, and the earliest empires ; 4 Seafaring, trade, and the making of the Mediterranean world ; 5 The grand canal and the flourishing of Chinese civilization ; 6 Islam, Deserts, and the destiny of history's most water-fragile civilizations ; Part 2 - Water and the ascendancy of the West ; 7 Waterwheel, plow, cargo ship, and the awakening of Europe ; 8 The voyage of discovery and the launch of the oceanic era ; 9 Steam power, industry, and the age of the British Empire ; Part 3 - Water and the making of the modern industrial society ; 10 The sanitary revolution ; 11 Water frontiers and the emergence of the United States ; 12 The canal to America's century ; 13 Giant dams, water abundance, and the rise of global society ; Part 4 - The age of scarcity ; 14 Water: the new oil ; 15 Thicker than blood: the water-famished Middle East ; 16 From have to have-not: mounting water distress in Asia's rising giants ; 17 Opportunity from scarcity: the new politics of water in the industrial democracies
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 596 S. : Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780060548308
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
