xvii, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Thirst For knowledge of the past and lessons for the future 2.The water revolution The origins of water management in the Levant, 1.5 million years ago to 700 BC 3.T̀he black fields became white/the broad plain was choked with salt' Water management and the rise and fall of Sumerian civilisation, 5000-1600 BC 4.Ẁater is the best thing of all' - Pindar of Thebes 476 BC Water management by the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Ancient Greeks 1800-146 BC 5.A watery paradise in Petra The Nabataeans, masters of the desert, 300 BC-AD 6.Building rivers and taking baths Rome and Constantinople, 400 BC-AD 800 7.A million men with teaspoons Hydraulic engineering in Ancient China, 900 BC-AD 907 8.The hydraulic city Water management by the kings of Angkor, AD 802-1327 9.Almost a civilisation Hohokam irrigation in the American South-West, AD 1-1450 10.Life and death of the water lily monster Water and the rise and fall of Mayan civilisation, 2000 BC-AD 1000 11.Water poetry in the Sacred Valley Hydraulic engineering by the Incas, AD 1200-1572 12.An unquenched thirst For water and for knowledge of the past
