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Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Irrigation Civilizations written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mayson Kirby
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
ISBN 13 : 1839472774
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book History of Civilizations written by Mayson Kirby and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Civilizations traces the history of man in this vast region from the Palaeolithic beginnings to circa 700 B.C. when the foundations for the formation of the great Empire were laid. Many different elements must come together before a human community develops to the level of sophistication commonly referred to as civilization. The first is the existence of settlements classifiable as towns or cities. This requires food production to be efficient enough for a large minority of the community to be engaged in more specialized activities-such as the creation of imposing buildings or works of art, the practice of skilled warfare, and above all the administration of a centralized bureaucracy capable of running the machinery of state. Despite the major role played by Central Asia in shaping the history of the past and of today, this vast region, stretching from the Caspian Sea to Mongolia and western China, had not been studied as a whole cultural entity in time and space. This multi-volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia, published in English, is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the cultures that flourished and vanished at the heart of the Eurasian continent from the dawn of civilization to the present day. The book is an engaging and thought-provoking philosophical account that demonstrates that critical inquiry is an ongoing process with strains of continuity and evolution of Civilizations.
Author : Charles Higham
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109962
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations written by Charles Higham and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the historical and cultural changes that occurred in Asia throughout history.
Author : Chris Scarre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296079
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Chris Scarre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, the Mediterranean world in the first millennium, Imperial Rome, northeast Africa, the divine kings in southeast Asia, and empires in East Asia, as well as early states in the Americas and Andean civilization. Ancient Civilizations includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fourth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, Scarre and Fagan, both established authorities on world prehistory, provide a valuable introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity.
Author : Dr. Brian Fagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317350332
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Dr. Brian Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many avenues of inquiry: archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and on both historical and ethnohistorical records; Ancient Civilizations, 3/e provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and a brief summary of the way in which they were discovered.
Author : Boris V. Andrianov
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782971653
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area written by Boris V. Andrianov and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, and excavations. This translation has been enriched by the addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 years after the original publication.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309175755
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A New Era for Irrigation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-10-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture has played a critical role in the economic and social development of the United Statesâ€"but it is also at the root of increasing controversy. How can irrigation best make the transition into an era of increasing water scarcity? In A New Era for Irrigation, experts draw important conclusions about whether irrigation can continue to be the nation's most significant water user, what role the federal government should play, and what the irrigation industry must do to adapt to the conditions of the future. A New Era for Irrigation provides data, examples, and insightful commentary on issues such as: Growing competition for water resources. Developments in technology and science. The role of federal subsidies for crops and water. Uncertainties related to American Indian water rights issues. Concern about environmental problems. And more. The committee identifies broad forces of change and reports on how public and private institutions, scientists and technology experts, and individual irrigators have responded. The report includes detailed case studies from the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, California, and Florida, in both the agricultural and turfgrass sectors. The cultural transformation brought about by irrigation may be as profound as the transformation of the landscape. The committee examines major facets of this cultural perspective and explores its place in the future. A New Era for Irrigation explains how irrigation emerged in the nineteenth century, how it met the nation's goals in the twentieth century, and what role it might play in the twenty-first century. It will be important to growers, policymakers, regulators, environmentalists, water and soil scientists, water rights claimants, and interested individuals.
Author : Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743216504
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Civilizations written by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its difference from the unmodified natural environment"...by its taming and warping of climate, geography, and ecology. The same impersonal forces that put an ocean between Africa and India, a river delta in Mesopotamia, or a 2,000-mile-long mountain range in South America have created the mold from which humanity has fashioned its own wildly differing cultures. In a grand tradition that is certain to evoke comparisons to the great historical taxonomies, each chapter of Civilizations connects the world of the ecologist and geographer to a panorama of cultural history. In Civilizations, the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not merely a Christian allegory, but a testament to the thousand-year-long deforestation of the trees that once covered 90 percent of the European mainland. The Indian Ocean has served as the world's greatest trading highway for millennia not merely because of cultural imperatives, but because the regular monsoon winds blow one way in the summer and the other in the winter. In the words of the author, "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations, it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period, or society by society." Thus, seventeen distinct habitats serve as jumping-off points for a series of brilliant set-piece comparisons; thus, tundra civilizations from Ice Age Europe are linked with the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest; and the Mississippi mound-builders and the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe are both understood as civilizations built on woodlands. Here, of course, are the familiar riverine civilizations of Mesopotamia and China, of the Indus and the Nile; but also highland civilizations from the Inca to New Guinea; island cultures from Minoan Crete to Polynesia to Renaissance Venice; maritime civilizations of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea...even the Bushmen of Southern Africa are seen through a lens provided by the desert civilizations of Chaco Canyon. More, here are fascinating stories, brilliantly told -- of the voyages of Chinese admiral Chen Ho and Portuguese commodore Vasco da Gama, of the Great Khan and the Great Zimbabwe. Here are Hesiod's tract on maritime trade in the early Aegean and the most up-to-date genetics of seed crops. Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations is a remarkable achievement...a tour de force by a brilliant scholar.
Author : Pierre-Louis Viollet
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203375319
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Water Engineering inAncient Civilizations written by Pierre-Louis Viollet and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book "L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes".Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students will find this book fascinating and invaluable
Author : Stephen C. McCaffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198736924
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Law of International Watercourses written by Stephen C. McCaffrey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated new edition of The Law of International Watercourses examines the rules of international law governing the use of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater shared by two or more countries.
Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576851
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Culture of Hope written by Frederick Turner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner indicts both Left and Right for creating a cultural establishment that is philosophically empty and esthetically corrupt.
Author : Jerome Delli Priscoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139471374
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts written by Jerome Delli Priscoli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the one thing that no one can do without? Water. Where water crosses boundaries – be they economic, legal, political or cultural – the stage is set for disputes between different users trying to safeguard access to a vital resource, while protecting the natural environment. Without strategies to anticipate, address, and mediate between competing users, intractable water conflicts are likely to become more frequent, more intense, and more disruptive around the world. In this book, Delli Priscoli and Wolf investigate the dynamics of water conflict and conflict resolution, from the local to the international. They explore the inexorable links between three facets of conflict management and transformation: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), public participation, and institutional capacity. This practical guide will be invaluable to water management professionals, as well as to researchers and students in engineering, economics, geography, geology, and political science who are involved in any aspects of water management.
Author : Nathaniel Weyl
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122104
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Geography of Intellect written by Nathaniel Weyl and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the first publication of the Geography of Intellect in 1963, the study of human intelligence, its distribution and causes, had been confined to inaccessible scholars’ journals. With the publication of works by Carleton S. Coon, Ernst Mayr and others—dealing with the evolution of man and his various sub-groups—has grown a strong popular interest in the findings of anthropological science: What has made man? Why do his civilizations rise and fall? How can we make certain that our current rate of material progress is maintained or increased, that we do not fall into the graveyard of civilizations wherein are buried Periclean Greece, Imperial Rome, Post-Inquisition Spain, Islamic civilization and the monstrous Nazi regime? “No one can read Nathaniel Weyl without realizing the has is clearly a man of intellectual honesty, attempting to perform a signal service for us all.”—NATIONAL REVIEW “So lucid and admirable a style”—NEW REPUBLIC “Professor Possony is an admirable historian, and his book is a careful and well-documented account.”—THE ANNALS “Dr. Possony—deeply steeped in general sociology—stands out among the younger historians whose work has commanded attention in Europe and in this country.”—THE NEW LEADER
Author : Casey Walsh
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344436X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border written by Casey Walsh and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cardenas government's effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico's effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the "social field" of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh's important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583471
Total Pages : 1195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993-12-21 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per
Author : J. C. Rodda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901502572
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Basis of Civilization--water Science? written by J. C. Rodda and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations from the Earliest Times to the Birth of Christ written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
