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Building on Water - 9781845450656

Un libro in lingua di Salvatore Ciriacono Scott Jeremy (TRN) edito da Berghahn Books, 2006

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The environmental impact of water use and land reclamation from marshland (in the case of Holland) or lagoons (for Venice) are by no means strictly modern concerns. They were the cause of both inspiration and debate from the sixteenth century onward in those socially and economically ambitious landscapes. Ciriacono (modern history, U. of Padua) makes the case that not only did such land reclamation schemes affect agriculture and the growth of cities but also a close relationship between the people and the water upon which they largely dwelt. He covers the relationship between water and agricultural production in the Venetian terra firma in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, irrigation and land drainage and its impact on the Venetian Republic, the study of hydraulics from the fifteenth century to the second scientific revolution, Venice and Holland as amphibious states, and the relationship of land reclamation and water to technology transfer from Holland to Germany, France and England. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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