Vol. 1 Water Control
and River Biographies
Tvedt, Terje, and Eva Jakobsson (eds)
I.B. Tauris, 2006
Introduction: Water History is World History
Terje Tvedt & Eva Jakobsson
If quoting this article: Tvedt, Terje and Eva Jakobsson, Water history is world history, in Tvedt, Terje and Eva Jakobsson (eds), History of Water, Water Control and River Biographies, Series I, vol. I (series editor Teje Tvedt), London and New York; IB Tauris.
Seizing Favours from Nature: The Rise and Fall of Siberian River Diversion
David F. Duke
The World’s Largest Contiguous Irrigation System: Developments, Successes and Challenges of the Indus Irrigation System in Pakistan
Muhammad Akram Kahlown, A. D. Khan, Muhammad Azam
Of Plumes, Modules and Barrels: The Failure of Irrigation Institutions and Technologies to Achieve Equitable Water Control in the Indus Basin
Gerardo van Halsema & Linden Vincent
Controlling the Waters in Twentieth-century China: the Nationalist State and the Huai River
David Pietz
The Chinese Way of Harnessing Rivers: The Yangtze River
Florence Padovani
Water Control and Agricultural Development: Crafting Deltaic Environments in South-East Asia
François Molle & Dao The Tuân
Environmental Risk in Water Resources Management in the Mekong Delta: A Multi-scale Analysis
Fiona Miller
Living with Water: Bangladesh Since Ancient Times
Ahmed Kamal
The History of the Tama River: Social Reconstructions
Marion William Steele
‘Seeing Like the Prussian State’: Re-engineering the Rivers of Rhineland and Westphalia
Mark Cioc, Professor of History
The River has Recorded the Story, Living with the Hawkesbury River, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Bruce Simmons & Jennifer Scott
Poverty, Water and Environmental Degradation: the Langat River Basin, Malaysia
Chamhuri Siwar & Shaharudin Idrus
Water and Wastes in Medieval London
R. J. Magnusson
Critical Decisions in Pittsburgh Water and Wastewater Management
Joel A. Tarr & Terry Josie
Water, Modernity and the Demise of the Bacteriological City
Matthew Gandy
Socio-economic Implications of Water Supply in Nigerian Urban Centres: The Case of Ibadan
Ibidun Onikepo Adelekan
The Political Ecology of Water Supply in Chennai, South India
Eberhard Weber
Keeping Running Water Clean: Mining and Pollution in Preindustrial Japan
Patricia Sippel
Management of Wetlands in Relation to River Basins – a Study from South West India
E. J. James
Public Water Supply in Guernsey, Channel Islands: Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Ownership and Control in an Island Setting
Vince GardinerÂ
The Mfongo Irrigation Systems on the Slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Mattias Tagseth
Alkalinity, Salinity and California Irrigation: The Role of Eugene Woldemar Hilgard
W. E. Pittman
The Rescue of English Coastal Waters and the Role of Environmental Pressure Groups
John Hassan
Management of the Mekong River Basin: Contesting its Sustainability from a Communication Perspective
Malee Lang
The BÃo–BÃo Project and the Mapuche-Pehuenche People of Chile
Ingeborg Norbø