Elixir A History of Water and Humankind

Name: Elixir A History of Water and Humankind
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ISBN: 9781608193370

ISBN-10: 1608193373

ISBN-13: 9781608193370

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Authors: Brian Fagan

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Elixirspans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As Brian Fagan shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship to our most essential resource. Fagan's sweeping narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China, where emperors marshaled armies of laborers in a centuries-long struggle to tame powerful rivers.He sets out three ages of water: In the first age, lasting thousands of years, water was scarce or at best unpredictable-so precious that it became sacred in almost every culture. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, human ingenuity had made water flow…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Author's Note



Canals, Furrows, and Rice Paddies



The Elixir of Life



Farmers and Furrows



"Whoever Has a-Channel Has a Wife"



Hohokam: "Something That Is All Gone"



The Power of the Waters



Waters from Afar



Landscapes of Enlil



The Lands of Enki



"I Caused a Canal to Be Cut"



The Waters of Zeus



Aquae Romae



Cisterns and Monsoons



Waters That Purify



China's Sorrow



Ancient American Hydrologists



The Water Lily Lords



Triumphs of Gravity



Gravity and Beyond



The Waters of Islam



"Lifting Power … More Certain than That of a Hundred Men"



Mastery?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index