Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization - Steven Solomon (2010)
Part I. Water in Ancient History
Chapter 1. The Indispensable Resource
Chapter 2. Water and the Start of Civilization
Chapter 3. Rivers, Irrigation, and the Earliest Empires
Chapter 4. Seafaring, Trade, and the Making of the Mediterranean World
Chapter 5. The Grand Canal and the Flourishing of Chinese Civilization
Chapter 6. Islam, Deserts, and the Destiny of History’s Most Water-Fragile Civilization
Part II. Water and the Ascendancy of the West
Chapter 7. Waterwheel, Plow, Cargo Ship, and the Awakening of Europe
Chapter 8. The Voyages of Discovery and the Launch of the Oceanic Era
Chapter 9. Steam Power, Industry, and the Age of the British Empire
Part III. Water and the Making of the Modern Industrial Society
Chapter 10. The Sanitary Revolution
Chapter 11. Water Frontiers and the Emergence of the United States
Chapter 12. The Canal to America’s Century
Chapter 13. Giant Dams, Water Abundance, and the Rise of Global Society
Part IV. The Age of Scarcity
Chapter 14. Water: The New Oil
Chapter 15. Thicker Than Blood: The Water-Famished Middle East
Chapter 16. From Have to Have-Not: Mounting Water Distress in Asia’s Rising Giants
Chapter 17. Opportunity from Scarcity: The New Politics of Water in the Industrial Democracies