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List of Maps | p. XI |
Prologue | p. 1 |
Water in Ancient History | |
The Indispensable Resource | p. 9 |
Water and the Start of Civilization | p. 15 |
Rivers, Irrigation, and the Earliest Empires | p. 24 |
Seafaring, Trade, and the Making of the Mediterranean World | p. 59 |
The Grand Canal and the Flourishing of Chinese Civilization | p. 96 |
Islam, Deserts, and the Destiny of History's Most Water-Fragile Civilization | p. 126 |
Water and the Ascendancy of the West | |
Waterwheel, Plow, Cargo Ship, and the Awakening of Europe | p. 157 |
The Voyages of Discovery and the Launch of the Oceanic Era | p. 180 |
Steam Power, Industry, and the Age of the British Empire | p. 211 |
Water and the Making of the Modern Industrial Society | |
The Sanitary Revolution | p. 249 |
Water Frontiers and the Emergence of the United States | p. 266 |
The Canal to America's Century | p. 302 |
Giant Dams, Water Abundance, and the Rise of Global Society | p. 322 |
The Age of Scarcity | |
Water: The New Oil | p. 367 |
Thicker Than Blood: The Water-Famished Middle East | p. 384 |
From Have to Have-Not: Mounting Water Distress in Asia's Rising Giants | p. 417 |
Opportunity from Scarcity: The New Politics of Water in the Industrial Democracies | p. 448 |
Epilogue | p. 487 |
Acknowledgments | p. 497 |
Notes | p. 501 |
Select Bibliography | p. 551 |
Photograph Credits | p. 565 |
Index | p. 567 |
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