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What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linton, Jamie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
Series:Nature, history, society,
Subjects:
Whitman College > Memorial bookplates > Class of 1940.
Water.
Hydrologic cycle.
Water > History.
Water > Environmental aspects.
Water > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
  • Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms
  • Intimations of modern water
  • From premodern waters to modern water
  • The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
  • The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
  • Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
  • Culmination : global water
  • The constitution of modern water
  • Modern water in crisis
  • Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
  • Hydrolectics.

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