WATER & STATE IN EUROPE & ASIA
Water is indispensable for all life on earth. Since ancient times, the control of fresh-water resources and also the sea facilitated the rise of communal structures and administrative institutions across Europe and Asia. Many states tightened their authority by creaming off agricultural surpluses from irrigated lands. The more effective the irrigational systems, the higher state revenues tended to be. For much of the twentieth century, research on such community-based irrigation was dominated by Karl August Wittfogel's discourse on Hydraulic Despotism'. Seaborne empires could flourish as a result of their commercial success and naval strength…
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Weitere Autoren: Krieger, Martin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-81-7304-776-3
- EAN: 9788173047763
- Produktnummer: 22442938
- Verlag: Manohar Publ S & Distributors
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.4 cm 518 g
- Gewicht: 518
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