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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
Preface
Author’s Note
Part I Canals, Furrows, and Rice Paddies
1. The Elixir of Life
2. Farmers and Furrows
3. “Whoever Has a Channel Has a Wife”
4. Hohokam: “Something That Is All Gone”
5. The Power of the Waters
Part II Waters from Afar
6. Landscapes of Enlil
7. The Lands of Enki
8. “I Caused a Canal to Be Cut”
9. The Waters of Zeus
10. Aquae Romae
Part III Cisterns and Monsoons
11. Waters That Purify
12. China’s Sorrow
Part IV Ancient American Hydrologists
13. The Water Lily Lords
14. Triumphs of Gravity
Part V Gravity and Beyond
15. The Waters of Islam
16. “Lifting Power … More Certain than That of a Hundred Men”
17. Mastery?
Acknowledgments
Notes
A Note on the Author
Also by Brian Fagan
Imprint
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