Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xiii
4. Glossary xvii
5. Abbreviations xx
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One. The Irrigation Communities of Medieval Valencia
8. I. The Huerta Environment 11
9. II. Irrigation Communities and Their Administration 31
10. III. Intracommunity Conflict and Its Resolution 52
11. IV. The City's Role in Irrigation Development 94
12. V. The Search for New Sources of Water 106
13. VI. Regional Arrangements 118
14. VII. The Huerta in Crisis 132
15. Part Two. Cultural Continuity in Irrigation
16. VIII. Arabs, Romans, or Christians? The Historiography of Spanish Irrigation in the Nineteenth Century 149
17. IX. The Classical Inheritance 175
18. X. Irrigation Administration in Al-Andalus: The S̩āh̩ib al-S̩āh̩iya 198
19. XI. Proportional Distribution and the Measuring of Water 207
20. XII. The Imprint of Islam upon the Terminology of Irrigation 217
21. XIII. Image and Reality of Cultural Change 230
22. Appendixes. Bibliography. Notes. Index
23. Appendix 1. Municipal Provisions for Road Maintenance, 1396 245
24. Appendix 2. Irrigation of Vineyards 246
25. Appendix 3. Crop Priorities in Time of Drought, 1376 248
26. Appendix 4. Regulations of the Water Company of Benidorm 250
27. Appendix 5. Rainfall and Temperature in Valencia 252
28. Appendix 6. Droughts and Floods in Medieval Valencia 253
29. Appendix 7. Plans for Hydraulic Wheel in Valencia to Irrigate Garden of the Lonja, 1529 262
30. Appendix 8. Division of the Barada River in 125 H. (742/743 A.D.) 264
31. Select Bibliography 267
32. Notes 281
33. Index 377