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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 3| Main Title | Elixir : a history of water and humankind / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Fagan, Brian M. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Press, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2012 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 759174709 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 9781608193370; 1608193373 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Water ; Water--History ; Water--Social aspects--History ; Water and civilization--History | |||||||||||
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| Edition | Pbk. ed. | |||||||||||
| Collation | xxvii, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | "First published by Bloomsbury Press in 2011"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-369) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | "[The author] tells the story of water and how it has shaped human history, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sunbelt"--P. [4] of cover. Canals, furrows, and rice paddies -- The elixir of life -- Farmers and furrows -- "Whoever has a channel has a wife" -- Hohokam : "Something that is all gone" -- The power of the waters -- Waters from afar -- Landscapes of Enlil -- The lands of Enki -- "I caused a canal to be cut" -- The waters of Zeus -- Aquae Romae -- Cisterns and monsoons -- Waters that purify -- China's sorrow -- Ancient American hydrologists -- The water lily lords -- Triumphs of gravity -- Gravity and beyond -- The waters of Islam -- "Lifting power-- more certain than that of a hundred men" -- Mastery?. |