Thirst：Water and Power in the Ancient World

作者: Steven Mithen

出版社: Harvard University Press

出版时间: 2012-11

ISBN: 9780674066939

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages will affect 75 percent of the global population. Steven Mithen puts our current crisis in histori Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Reading. List of Figures
List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
1. Thirst: For knowledge of the past and lessons for the future
2. The water revolution: The origins of water management in the Levant, 1.5 million years ago to 700 BC
3. ‘The black fields became white/the broad plain was choked with salt’: Water management and the rise and fall of Sumerian civilisation, 5000–1600 BC
4. ‘Water is the best thing of all’—Pindar of Thebes, 476 BC: Water management by the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Ancient Greeks, 1800–146 BC
5. A watery paradise in Petra: The Nabataeans, masters of the desert, 300 BC–AD 106
6. Building rivers and taking baths: Rome and Constantinople, 400 BC–AD 800
7. A million men with teaspoons: Hydraulic engineering in Ancient China, 900 BC–AD 907
8. The hydraulic city: Water management by the kings of Angkor, AD 802–1327
9. Almost a civilisation: Hohokam irrigation in the American South-West, AD 1–1450
10. Life and death of the water lily monster: Water and the rise and fall of Mayan civilisation, 2000 BC–AD 1000
11. Water poetry in the Sacred Valley: Hydraulic engineering by the Incas, AD 1200–1572
12. An unquenched thirst: For water and for knowledge of the past
Notes
Bibliography
Index
内容简介:
Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages will affect 75 percent of the global population. Steven Mithen puts our current crisis in histori
作者简介:
Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Reading.
目录:
List of Figures
List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
1. Thirst: For knowledge of the past and lessons for the future
2. The water revolution: The origins of water management in the Levant, 1.5 million years ago to 700 BC
3. ‘The black fields became white/the broad plain was choked with salt’: Water management and the rise and fall of Sumerian civilisation, 5000–1600 BC
4. ‘Water is the best thing of all’—Pindar of Thebes, 476 BC: Water management by the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Ancient Greeks, 1800–146 BC
5. A watery paradise in Petra: The Nabataeans, masters of the desert, 300 BC–AD 106
6. Building rivers and taking baths: Rome and Constantinople, 400 BC–AD 800
7. A million men with teaspoons: Hydraulic engineering in Ancient China, 900 BC–AD 907
8. The hydraulic city: Water management by the kings of Angkor, AD 802–1327
9. Almost a civilisation: Hohokam irrigation in the American South-West, AD 1–1450
10. Life and death of the water lily monster: Water and the rise and fall of Mayan civilisation, 2000 BC–AD 1000
11. Water poetry in the Sacred Valley: Hydraulic engineering by the Incas, AD 1200–1572
12. An unquenched thirst: For water and for knowledge of the past
Notes
Bibliography
Index