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Hydraulic Societies - Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (Paperback)
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Hydraulic Societies - Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History (Paperback)
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Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power,
state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of
ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological
perspectives, the essays in this book address the how humans have
long harnessed water and sought to contain its destructive power
for political, economic and social ends. Water defines every aspect
of life and remains at the center of human activity: in irrigation
and agriculture; waste and sanitation; drinking and disease; floods
and droughts; religious beliefs and practices; fishing and
aquaculture; travel and discovery; scientific study; water
pollution and conservation; multi-purpose dam building; boundaries
and borders; politics and economic life; and wars and diplomacy.
 From the earliest large irrigation works thousands of years
ago, control over water has involved control over people, as the
essays in this volume reflect. The intersections of water and
political, economic, and social power historically span
international as well as domestic politics and operate at scales
ranging from the local to the global. The authors consider the role
of water in national development schemes, water distribution as a
tool of political power, international disputes over waterways and
water supplies, and the place of water in armed conflicts. They
explore the ways in which political power and social hierarchies
have themselves been defined and redefined by water and its
control, how state leaders legitimized their rule both culturally
and economically through the control of water, and how water
management schemes were a means to impose and refine colonial
power.
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