Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization - Steven Solomon

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization - Steven Solomon (2010)

PROLOGUE

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

EPILOGUE

NOTES

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