A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times by Tvedt, Terje

A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781848853508)

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A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times by Tvedt, Terje

A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times

$190.00
A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times by Tvedt, Terje

A History of Water: Series II: Rivers and Society: From Early Civilizations to Modern Times

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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Rivers and Society explores the ways in which human/river relations have shaped important historical transformation processes. With examples ranging from explorations of classical agrarian civilisations such as the Indus, Angkor and Maya, to analyses of the role of water in the modernisation process of countries such as Spain, Britain and Japan, the international contributors shed new light on the ways in which the key relationship between humans and water has given rise to new forms of social organisation, new technologies and economic activities.

Author: Terje Tvedt,Richard Coopey
ISBN-10: 1848853505
ISBN-13: 9781848853508
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2010
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2011
By Terje Tvedt
By Terje Tvedt
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Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The River Nile in the Age of the British and has co-directed and written two successful television documentaries on water. Richard Coopey is with the Department of History at the University of Aberystwyth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

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