ABSTRACT

This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book "L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes".Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students will find this book fascinating and invaluable

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

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Part I: 4,000 Years of Hydraulic development in the East: From the era of the early cultivators to the conquests of Alexander the Great

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Part II: The Empires of the Builders