An introduction by Italian scholar Ciriacono precedes this collection of articles by renowned water management historians. The articles were originally published in scholarly journals between 1948 and 1995, and are divided into four sections ancient irrigation, irrigation in Europe and the Middle East, land drainage and reclamation in Europe, and irrigation in America and Asia. Specific topics include irrigation and land use in ancient Mesopotamia; some ancient agricultural achievements in the central Negev; the engineering works of John Grundy (1719-1793); surveying and hydraulic engineering of the pre-Colombian Chimu state, AD 900-1450; and water control in the Dongting Lake region during the Ming an Qing periods. All but one appear in English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [ The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1
Acknowledgements vii-x(3) General Editors Preface xi-xii(1) Introduction xiii-xxxix(26) ANCIENT IRRIGATION 1(22) 1 Ancient irrigation and water management in the Indian Ocean region 1(12) K.N. Chaudhuri 2 Irrigation and land use in ancient Mesopotamia 13(10) Jacob W. Gruber IRRIGATION IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST 23(78) 3 Water and soil from the desert: some ancient agricultural achievements in the central Negev 23(12) Yehuda Kedar 4 Roman dams in Tripolitania 35(10) Claudio Vita-Finzi 5 Hydraulic technology in al-Andalus 45(14) Thomas F. Glick 6 Giovanni Francesco Sitoni, an hydraulic engineer of the Renaissance 59(24) Jose A. Garcia-Diego 7 Irrigation in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe 83(18) Peter Michelsen LAND DRAINAGE AND RECLAMATION IN EUROPE 101(148) 8 History of the reclamation of the western fenlands and of the organizations to keep them drained 101(34) H. van der Linden 9 Land drainage and reclamation 135(26) L.E. Harris 10 Le marais Poitevin 161(14) R. dHollander 11 Boulton and Watt and the Norfolk marshland 175(16) Norman Mutton 12 The engineering works of John Grundy (1719-1783) 191(40) A.W. Skempton 13 The drainage and reclamation of the Somerset levels, 1770-1833 231(18) M. Williams IRRIGATION IN AMERICA AND ASIA 249(116) 14 Surveying and hydraulic engineering of the pre-Columbian Chimu state: AD 900-1450 249(20) C.R. Ortloff 15 Technological change in a traditional society: the case of the desague in colonial Mexico 269(22) Louisa Schell Hoberman 16 Irrigation, agriculture and the landlord in early modern Japan 291(28) Isao Hatate 17 Water control in the Dongting Lake region during the Ming and Qing periods 319(20) Peter C. Perdue 18 Contributions of the British to irrigation engineering in upper India in the nineteenth century 339(26) Joyce M. Brown Index 365
Salvatore Ciriacono, University of Padova, Italy K.N. Chaudhuri, Jacob W. Gruber, Yehuda Kedar, Claudio Vita-Finzi, Thomas F. Glick, Jose A. Garcia-Diego, Peter Michelsen, H. van der Linden, L.E. Harris, R. d'Hollander, Norman Mutton, A.W . Skempton, M. Williams, C.R. Ortloff, Louisa Schell Hoberman, Isao Hatate, Peter C. Perdue, Joyce M. Brown.
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