03374cam a22004218i 4500999001900000001000900019003000800028005001700036006001300053007000300066008004100069010001700110020003000127020002700157040002300184041000800207042000800215050002500223082001200248100003900260245004700299250001900346264003800365300004500403504005100448505074300499520118001242588010302422650002002525650001502545650002702560650003302587650001102620776013702631906004502768942001202813952012702825 c115554d11555421687488BJBSDDR20230411090732.0m |r d |ta200819s2021 nyu ob 001 0 eng  a 2020037045 a9781524748234 (hardcover) a1524748234 (hardcover) aDLCbengcDLCerda aeng apcc14aGB 659.6bB664w 202100a574.9291 aBoccaletti, Giulio, d1974-91921010aWater :ba biography /cGiulio Boccaletti. aFirst edition. 1aNew York :bPantheon Books,c2021 axiv, 378 pages : bcolor maps ; c25 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aPart I -- Origins -- Standing still in a world of moving water -- The rise of the hydraulic state -- Bronze Age globalization -- An article of faith -- The politics of Water -- Res Publica -- Part II -- A thousand years of convergence -- Fragments of the past -- The republic returns -- Water sovereignty -- American river republic -- Global water empire -- The great Utopian synthesis -- Part III -- The hydraulic century -- Setting the stage for revolution -- Crisis and its discontent -- industrializing modernity -- FDR's modernization project -- Cold War -- The great acceleration -- The end of an era -- Part IV -- Finale -- A world of scarcity -- A planetary experiment -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. a"In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion in population and the specialization of labor. We see how irrigation structure led to social structure--inventions like the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity; how, in Ancient Greece, communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experience dealing with water security was the seed for tax systems. And he makes clear how the modern world as we know it began with a legal structure for the development of water infrastructure. In its scope and clarity, Water: A Biography provides a fascinating framework through which we can more fully understand society's relationship to, and fundamental reliance on, the most elemental substance on our planet"--cProvided by publisher. aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. 0aWaterxHistory. 4aAgua97880 4aAgua xHistoria919740 4aAbastecimiento de agua97882 0aWater.08iPrint version:aBoccaletti, Giulio, 1974-tWaterbFirst edition.dNew York : Pantheon Books, [2021]z9781524748234w(DLC) 2020037044 a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg 2lcccBK 00102lcc40708CSaBJBbBJBcCSd2021-11-19l0oGB 659.6 B664w 2021p00000150202r2021-11-19 00:00:00t1w2021-11-19yBK