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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Solomon |
OCLC Number: | 535738617 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Harper, ©2010. 1st ed. |
Awards: | Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2010 |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | The indispensable resource -- Water and the start of civilization -- Rivers, irrigation, and the earliest empires -- Seafaring, trade, and the making of the Mediterranean world -- The Grand Canal and the flourishing of Chinese civilization -- Islam, deserts, and the destiny of history's most water-fragile civilization -- Waterwheel, plow, cargo ship, and the awakening of Europe -- The voyages of discovery and the launch of the oceanic era -- Steam power, industry, and the Age of the British Empire -- The sanitary revolution -- Water frontiers and the emergence of the United States -- The canal to America's Century -- Giant dams, water abundance, and the rise of global society -- Water : the new oil -- Thicker than blood : the water-famished Middle East -- From have to have-not : mounting water distress in Asia's rising giants -- Opportunity for scarcity : the new policies of water in the industrial democracies. |
Responsibility: | Steven Solomon. |
Abstract:
"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher
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