This book attempts to highlight the vital role water has played in creating, consolidating, protecting, and preserving ancient and medieval global civilizations. It explains how the modern world has been addressing the issue of water insecurity an...Lasīt vairāk
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile acti...Lasīt vairāk
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments, from dry deserts and moderate Mediterranean...Lasīt vairāk
This volume, edited by Kwai-Cheung Lo and Hung-chiung Li, explores the notion of entangled waterscape to reflect beyond the traditional continental perspectives. It understands Asia and beyond through the multifaceted interplay of history, economics...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300259421)
A human history of one of the planets most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the manner in which human societies understood and managed scarce water resources. Focusing on the arid, rain shadow region of Marathwada, it documents the panoramic history of this regions most important resource water....Lasīt vairāk
Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? ...Lasīt vairāk
This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising waters pivotal role in the climate crisis and...Lasīt vairāk
This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as a disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising waters pivotal role in the climate crisis...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments, from dry deserts and mode...Lasīt vairāk
Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical turn known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lak...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a collection of highly refined articles on historical water projects and traditional water technologies of international interest in the Asian region addressing information on past water projects (mostly before the 20th century) in th...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the product of four people with very different backgrounds, interests, and life experiences. What unites us is a curiosity about the world, a relentless drive to question, and a responsibility to the people, places, and waters we have m...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the oc...Lasīt vairāk
From Hydrology to Hydroarchaeology in the Ancient Mediterranean: An interdisciplinary approach is devoted to the study of water management in ancient cities. It compares the approaches and methods adopted by researchers from different disciplinary se...Lasīt vairāk
How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges loc...Lasīt vairāk
