Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiene en Milieu, 1999-2001 ...

Aankondigingen
Bij Ashgate Publishing zijn twee
boeken verschenen die uitgebreid
ingaan op de geschiedenis van het
waterbeheer.
Land Drainage
and Irrigation
Edited by Salvatore Ciriacono, University
of Padova.
“Man’s control over land and
water for the purposes of agriculture
was fundamental to the development
of civilisations in the
past, and remains so today. This
volume deals with the processes
of irrigation, and land drainage
and reclamation, and illustrates
the variety of technological and
engineering solutions in a wide
chronological and geographical
perspective.
The sophistication of many premodern
systems is clear, as also the
impact of modern technologies.
Important points that emerge are
that there was no steady or linear
progression in techniques across
time -instances of the transfer of
ideas are balanced by cases of independent
development - and that
the correlations between irrigation
systems and social structures demand
more complex explanations
than often proposed.”
Contents
Introduction;
Ancient irrigation:
-Ancient irrigation and water
management in the Indian Ocean
region, K. N. Chaudhuri;
-Irrigation and land use in ancient
Mesopotamia, J.W. Gruber;
Irrigation in Europe and the Middle
East:
-Water and soil from the desert:
some ancient agricultural achievements
in the central Negev, Y. Kedar;
-Roman dams in Tripolitania,
C. Vitafinzi;
-Hydraulic technology in Al-Andalus,
Thomas F Glick;
-Giovanni Francesco Sitoni, an
hydraulic engineer of the Renaissance,
José A.Garcia-Diego;
-Irrigation in Norway and elsewhere
in Northern Europe, P. Michelsen;
Land drainage and reclamation in
Europe:
-History of the reclamation of the
Western Fenlands and of the organisations
to keep them drained,
H. van der Linden;
-Land drainage and reclamation,
L.E Harris;
-Le marais Poitevin, R. d‘Hollander;
-Boulton and Watt and the Norfolk
marshland, N. Mutton;
-The engineering works of
John Grundy 1719-1783, A.W
Skempton;
-The drainage and reclamation of
the Somerset levels, 1770-1833,
M. Williams
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Irrigation in America and Asia:
-Surveying and hydraulic engineering
of the pre-Columbian
Chimù State: AD 900-1450,
C.R Ortloff;
-Technological change in a traditional
society: The case of the desague
in colonial Mexico, Louisa
Schell Hoberman;
-Irrigation, agriculture and the
landlord in early modern Japan,
Isao Hatate;
-Water control in the Dongting
lake region during the Ming and
Quing periods, Peter C.Perdue;
-Contributions of the British
to irrigation engineering in upper
India in the 19th century,
J.M.Brown;
Index.
Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot
Studies in the History of Civil Engineering
3 November 1998, 244
x 169 mm 414 pages. Hardback 0
86078 752 4 £85.00
Water Supply and Public
Health Engineering
Edited by Denis Smith, Formerly
University of East London.
“This volume traces the evolution
of the concept of Public Health and
reveals the importance of political
will and public spending in this
field of civil engineering. Design,
construction, operation and maintenance
of water supply and main
drainage works are discussed. The
period covered extends from Roman
engineering through to the
early 20th century, with examples
from Europe, America and Japan.
These papers also underline the
fundamental importance of these
works in the successful functioning
of an urban society, and in the
growth of modern cities.”
Contents:
Introduction
Urban water-supply:
-Attitudes to Roman engineering
and the question of the inverted
siphon, Norman A.F. Smith;
-Our debt to Roman engineering:
the water-supply of Lincoln to
the present day, M.J.T. Lewis;
-Sir Hugh Myddelton and the
New River, G.C. Berry;
-George Sorocold of Derby: a pioneer
of water-supply, F. Williamson;
-The old water supply of Seville,
George Higgin;
-Portsmouth’s water supply, 1800-
1860, Mary Hallet;
-The impounding reservoirs of
the Newcastle and Gateshead
Water Company, 1845- 1905,
R.W. Rennison;
-The Old Croton Aqueduct,
George H. Rappole;
-Bringing water to the Crescent
City: Benjamin Latrobe and the
New Orleans waterworks system,
Gary A. Donaldson;
-Urban sanitation in preindustrial
Japan, Susan B. Hanley;
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