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Land Drainage and Irrigation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Land Drainage and Irrigation (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in the History of Civil Engineering
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Man's control over the elements of 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 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.
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