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008			200819s2021 nyub b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020037044
020			_a9781524748234 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781524748241 _q(ebk)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aGB659.6 _b.B63 2021
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100	1		_aBoccaletti, Giulio, _d1974- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aWater _ba biography _cGiulio Boccaletti
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York _bPantheon Books _c[2021]
300			_axiv, 378 p. _bcolor maps _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_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.
650		0	_aWater _xHistory.
650		0	_aWater.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBoccaletti, Giulio, _tWater _dNew York : Pantheon Books, 2021. _z9781524748241 _w(DLC) 2020037045
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