Chapter One Water and Power in Past Societies

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Water and Power in Past Societies 1
5. Productive Power and the Ecological History of Waterscapes
6. The Political Ecology of Chinampa Landscapes in the Basin of Mexico 19
7. Irrigation and Social Organization 41
8. Water Management by Mobile Pastoralists in the Middle East 63
9. Water and Workshops 89
10. Waterscapes, Power Plays, and Display
11. From Elite Villas to Public Spaces 115
12. From Urban Oasis to Desert Hinterland 131
13. Spatial Archaeology, Hydrology, and the Historical Dynamics of Water in Ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman) 159
14. Coastal Water
15. The Sea and Bronze Age Transformations 177
16. Southeast Asian Maritime Power, Seventeenth‑Century Spice Wars, and Tiworo’s Neglected Fortifications 199
17. The Power of Coastal Resources 217
18. Water Archaeology: Pasts, Presents, Futures
19. Rivers as Material Infrastructure 243
20. Geologies of Belonging 259
21. Some Perspectives on the Frequency of Significant, Historically Forcing Drought and Subsistence Crises in Anatolia and Region 279
22. A Framework for Facing the Past 297
23. Contributors 317
24. Index 319