Research Catalog

Title

Wasser : Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repräsentation zwischen Antike und Neuzeit / Sitta von Reden, Christian Wieland (Hg.).

Publication

• Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Reden, Sitta von
• Wieland, Christian
• Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
• Deutscher Historikertag (49th : 2012 : Mainz, Germany). Section "Wasser : Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repräsentation zwischen Antike und Neuzeit.''.

Description

170 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume offers a comparative perspective on the control of water and water supply as political means of stabilizing, legitimizing and representing power. Water is a scarce and at the same time un-substitutable means of life whose successful control can help to demonstrate the success of political regimes. Ancient, Early Modern and modern states did and still do use this opportunity to stabilize their power, while aesthetically appealing or materially impressive hydraulic works of engineering visually encapsulate that power. But their building also mobilizes and concentrates manpower, taxes and know-how so that, so the argument of this book, successful water control and state-building were interrelated processes.

Series Statement

• Umwelt und Gesellschaft, 2198-7157 ; Band 14
• V&R Academic

Uniform Title

Umwelt und Gesellschaft Bd. 14.

Alternative Title

Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repräsentation zwischen Antike und Neuzeit

Subject

• Water-supply > Management > Congresses
• Water-supply > Environmental aspects > Congresses
• Water-supply > History > Congresses
• Water-supply engineering > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Proceedings of conference held in September, 2012, Mainz, Germany.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

zqischen Ökologie und Recht / Neville Morley -- Das Wasser der Techniker. Frühneuzeitliche Wasserdiskurse zwischen Architektur, Ingenieurskunst und Gartenbau / Christian Wieland -- Unpersönliche Herrschaft und der Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- Im Bauch der Stadt. Kanalisation und Bürgerstolz im 19. Jahrhundert / Franz-Josef Brüggemeier.

ISBN

• 9783525317181
• 9783647317182 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783666317187 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 941731278
• SCSB-11855259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library