Water (Paperback)

Giulio Boccaletti

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Editore: Random House USA Inc, New York, 2022

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Paperback. Spanning millennia and continents, a stunning, revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilizationSpanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that "tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity" (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host)."Far more than a biography of its nominal subject . The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself."-The Wall Street Journal Book ReviewWriting with authority and brio, Giulio Boc-caletti-honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer-sity of Oxford-shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ-ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.We see with clarity how irrigation's structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to-and fundamental reliance on-the most elemental substance on earth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
Water (Paperback)
Autore
Giulio Boccaletti
Editore
Random House USA Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0525566007
ISBN 13
9780525566007

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