Land drainage and irrigation
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Land drainage and irrigation
(Studies in the history of civil engineering, v. 3)
Ashgate, 1998
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxix) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Man's control over the elements of land and water for the purposes of agriculture was fundamental to the development of civilisations in the past, and remains so today. This volume deals with the processes of irrigation, and land drainage and reclamation, and illustrates the variety of technological and engineering solutions in a wide chronological and geographical perspective. The sophistication of many pre-modern systems is clear, as is the impact of modern technologies. Important points that emerge are that there was no steady or linear progression in techniques across time - instances of the transfer of ideas are balanced by cases of independent development - and that the correlations between irrigation systems and social structures demand more complex explanations than often proposed.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Ancient Irrigation: Ancient irrigation and water management in the Indian Ocean region, K.N. Chaudhuri
- Irrigation and land use in ancient Mesopotamia, Jacob W. Gruber
- Irrigation In Europe And The Middle East: Water and soil from the desert: some ancient agricultural achievements in the central Negev, Yehuda Kedar
- Roman dams in Tripolitania, Claudio Vita-Finzi
- Hydraulic technology in al-Andalus, Thomas F.Glick
- Giovanni Francesco Sitoni, an hydraulic engineer of the Renaissance, Jose A. GarcA a-Diego
- Irrigation in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe, Peter Michelsen
- Land Drainage And Reclamation In Europe: History of the reclamation of the western fenlands and of the organisations to keep them drained, H. van der Linden
- Land drainage and reclamation, L.E. Harris
- Le marais Poitevin, R. d'Hollander
- Boulton and Watt and the Norfolk marshland, Norman Mutton
- The engineering works of John Grundy, 1719-1783, A.W . Skempton
- The drainage and reclamation of the Somerset levels, 1770-1833, M. Williams
- Irrigation In America And Asia: Surveying and hydraulic engineering of the pre-Columbian ChimA state: ad 900-1450, C.R. Ortloff
- Technology change in a traditional society: the case of the desagA1/4e in colonial Mexico, Louisa Schell Hoberman
- Irrigation, agriculture and the landlord in early modern Japan, Isao Hatate
- Water control in the Dongting Lake region during the Ming and Qing periods, Peter C. Perdue
- Contributions of the British to irrigation engineering in upper India in the 19th century, Joyce M. Brown
- Index.
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