A History of Water: Series I, Volume 1. By Terje Tvedt, Eva Jakobsson. This volume is the first of three that explore all aspects of water – social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological – from ancient times to the present day. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature. The contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good; the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level; water in cities; great river plans; dams; river biographies; and images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. Terje Tvedt is Professor and Research Director at the Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Social Science, University of Bergen. Eva Jakobsson is Senior Research Scientist at Stavanger University College, Norway. VOLUME I: Great Plans Seizing Favours From Nature: The Rise and Fall of Siberian River Diversions–D. Duke The World’s Largest Contiguous Irrigation System: Development, Successes and Challenges of the Indus Irrigation System in Pakistan–A. Kahlown The Failure of Irrigation, Institutions and Technologies to Achieve Equitable Water Control in the Indus Basin–G. Van Halsema & V. Linden Controlling the Waters in 20th Century China: The Nationalist State and the Huai River–D. Pietz The Chinese Way of Harnessing Rivers: The Yangtze River–F. Padovani Water Control and Agricultural Development: Crafting Deltaic Environments in Southeast Asia–F. Tuan Environmental Risk in Water Resource Management: A Multiscale Analysis of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam–F. Miller Overcoming Nature and Man: Mechanical Cultivation in the Rufiji River Basin, Tanganyika–H. Hoag Living With Water: Bangladesh Since Ancient Times–A. Kamal River Biographies The Early History of a River: Mexico’s Upper Lerma River–B. B. Schoendube The History of the Tama River: Social Reconstruction–W. Steele Seeing Like the Prussian State: Re-Engineering the Rivers of the Rhineland and Westphalia–M. Cioc The River Has Recorded the Story: Living With the Hawkesbury River, Australia–B. Simmons Poverty, Water and Environmental Degradation: The Langat River Basin, Malaysia–C. Siwar Water Power in Early Norwegian Industrialization: The Aker River–E. Bagle Water in Cities Water and Wastes in Mediaeval London–R. Magnusson Defeating Water-Borne Epidemics in Oslo–T. Johansen Critical Decisions in Pittsburgh Water and Wastewater Management–J. Tarr Engineering the Technological Sublime: The Provision of Water For New York City–M. Gandy Socio-Economic Implications of Water Supply in Nigerian Urban Centres–I. Adelekan The Political Economy of Water Supply in Chennai, South India–E. Weber Organising Water Keeping Running Water Clean: Mining and Pollution in Pre-Industrial Japan–P. G. Sippel Waste or Want, Pure or Polluted: Issues in the Water History of 19th Century Trinidad–R. Pemberton Salinity: The Failure of New South Wales to Learn From India–K. Proust Management of Wetlands in Relation to River Basins–A Case Study From Southwest India–E. James Aspects of Public Water Supply in Guernsey, Channel Islands–V. Gardiner Emerging Problems and Strategies For Sustainable Freshwater Development in Coastal Areas–B. Sahni The’Mfongo’ Irrigation Systems on the Slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania–M. Tagseth Alkalinity, Salinity and California Irrigation: The Role of Eugene Woldemar Hilgard–W. Pittman Debating Water The Rescue of English Wales and the Role of Environmental Pressure Groups–J. Hassan Management of the Mekong River Basin: Contesting Its Sustainability From a Communication Perspective–M. Lang The Bio-Bio Project and the Mapuche-Pehuenche People of Chile–I. Nordboslash; Composite Water: The Cultural Construction of Rivers and the Violence of Modernisation in Delta Bangladesh–M. Short Title HIST OF WATER VOLUME I. Subtitle Water Control and River Biographies. Place of Publication London. Country of Publication United Kingdom. UK Release Date 2012-12-05. AU Release Date 2012-12-05. NZ Release Date 2012-12-05. Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Edited by Eva Jakobsson. Illustrations 23 integrated bw, 1 line drawing, 1 map. We’ve got this. At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it.