Land Drainage and Irrigation

Salvatore Ciriacono, Dr. Joyce Brown, Mr. Michael M. Chrimes , Dr. N. A. F. Smith

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Ashgate Publishing Limited
23 December 1998

History of engineering & technology; Land reclamation & drainage; Sanitary & municipal engineering

Series: Studies in the History of Civil Engineering

Man's control over the elements of land and water for the purposes of agriculture was fundamental to the development of civilizations in the past, and remains so today. This text 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 pre-modern systems is clear, as is 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.

Edited by: Salvatore Ciriacono
Series edited by: Dr. Joyce Brown, Mr. Michael M. Chrimes, Dr. N. A. F. Smith, Mr. R. J. M. Sutherland
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: v. 3
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 930g
ISBN: 9780860787525
ISBN 10: 0860787524
Series: Studies in the History of Civil Engineering
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 23 December 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Salvatore Ciriacono, University of Padova, Italy K.N. Chaudhuri, Jacob W. Gruber, Yehuda Kedar, Claudio Vita-Finzi, Thomas F. Glick, Jose A. Garcia-Diego, Peter Michelsen, H. van der Linden, L.E. Harris, R. d'Hollander, Norman Mutton, A.W . Skempton, M. Williams, C.R. Ortloff, Louisa Schell Hoberman, Isao Hatate, Peter C. Perdue, Joyce M. Brown.

Reviews for Land Drainage and Irrigation

'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1