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Informationen zum Autor Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The River Nile in the Age of the British and has co-directed and written two successful television documentaries on water. Richard Coopey is with the Department of History at the University of Aberystwyth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Klappentext The international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation! new technologies and economic activities. Vorwort The international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities. Zusammenfassung The international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Water Systems and DevelopmentChapter I: Terje Tvedt and Richard Coopey A “Water Systems” Perspective on HistoryPart II: Water systems and Agricultural CivilizationsCh. 2 Gregory L. Possehl The Indus Civilisation and Riverine History in Northwestern India and PakistanCh. 3 Judith Bunbury The Development of the River Nile and the Egyptian Civilisation: A Water Historical Perspective Ch. 4 Terje Oestigaard Osiris and the Egyptian Civilisation of Inundation. The Pyramids, the Pharaohs and their Water WorldCh. 5 Richardson P. Gill The Maya Collapse: Water, Drought and VolcanoesCh. 6 Dan Penny The Mekong River System and the End of the Angkor Civilisation: A Water Historical PerspectiveCh. 7 Qiang Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, Tao Yang, Zhen-Chun Hao The historical evolution and anthropogenic influences on the Yellow River from ancient to modern timesCh. 8 Richard C. Hoffman Elemental Resources and Aquatic Ecosystems: Medieval Europeans and their RiversCh. 9. Fred H. Lawson Nile River Flows and Political Order in Ottoman EgyptCh. 10: Harriet Nash The afl?j of Oman and traditional timing of water sharesPart III: Water systems and Development in the Early Modern EraCh. 11 Jacobus De Vries Water control in the Netherlands Ch. 12 Toon Bosch Changing societies produces changing rivers. Managing the Rhine in Germany and Holland in a changing environment Ch. 13 Roderick I. Wilson River Regimes: Changing Environmental Relations along the Waterways of the Kanto Plain, JapanCh. 14 Graham Chapman Water and the British take-over of IndiaCh. 15 Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus The Neva as a Metropolitan River of Russia: Economy, Environment and CultureCh. 16 Miklos Domokos A historic survey of the Danube catchment: From Classical civilisation to the end of the 19th CenturyCh. 17 Richard Coopey The Severn : Nature, Power and RationalisationCh. 18 Eva Jakobsson The history of flowing water policy in Sweden: from natural flow toindustrialised rivers Ch. 19 Leandro del Moral Ituarte The hydraulic paradigm and the production of a new geography in Spain. Origins and Historical Evolution Between the Sixteenth and Twentieth centuries. Ch. 20 Salvatore Ciriacono Venetian rivers after the fall of the republic. French and Austrian HydrologyCh. 21 Martin Reuss Exploitation and Innovation Along the Lower Mississippi...
