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008    200819s2021    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
010      2020037044 
020    9781524748234|q(hardcover) 
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042    pcc 
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092    909|bBOC 
100 1  Boccaletti, Giulio,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 10 Water :|ba biography /|cGiulio Boccaletti. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2021] 
300    xiv, 378 pages :|bcolor illustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and 
       index. 
520    "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 Water|xHistory. 
650  0 Water.