Writ in Water A Journey of Discovery.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Selbst, Nina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2019.
Temas:
Water and civilization.
Eau et civilisation.
Water and civilization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Part 1 IN THE BEGINNING
  • A Word of Introduction
  • Chapter 1.1 Mediterranean Creation Myths
  • The Mediterranean Basin
  • Babylon: the Oldest Stories of All
  • Egyptian Cosmogony
  • Creation through the Eyes of the Israelites
  • Greek Cosmogony
  • Mediterranean Myths in Perspective
  • Chapter 1.2 Creation Myths of Asia
  • The Sources of Asian Cosmogony and Cosmology
  • Chapter 1.3 Creation Myths of Tribal Societies
  • On the Road to Civilization
  • Africa
  • North America
  • Part 2 ROADS TO CIVILIZATION
  • Chapter 2.1 On the Road to Civilization Water as a Catalyst
  • Chapter 2.2 A Glance at Early Civilizations
  • Mesopotamia
  • Some Cities of Mesopotamia
  • The Indus Valley
  • China
  • In Conclusion
  • Chapter 2.3 Weather and Weltanschauung- The People of the Bible
  • The Bible as Source
  • The Flood
  • The Patriarchs
  • Wells
  • Exodus from Egypt
  • Sojourn in the Wilderness
  • The Promised Land
  • Climate, Character and Weltanschauung
  • Water as Metaphor
  • Water and Wellbeing
  • Threat, Admonition, Awe, Fear and Despair
  • Chapter 2.4 Water in Law
  • Introduction
  • The Code of Hammurabi
  • The Code of Manu
  • Part 3 CITIES AND THEIR WATER
  • A Word of Introduction
  • Chapter 3.1 Jerusalem and its Waters
  • Unique among the Cities
  • Beginnings
  • The City of David
  • Water for Survival
  • The Gihon Spring
  • Cisterns-Public and Private
  • Conserving the Flood Waters
  • Water from Afar-Aqueducts
  • Water and Lifestyle
  • After the Destruction of the Second Temple
  • The Nineteenth Century
  • The End of Ottoman Rule: World War I and After
  • A Modern-Day Siege
  • Statehood and After
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3.2 The Waters of Rome
  • Rome and its Waters
  • Beginnings
  • The Republic
  • The First Aqueducts
  • The Empire
  • Decline and Recovery
  • The Gifts of the Popes
  • The Secular City
  • The New Aqueducts
  • The System
  • Management
  • Castella, Mostre and Just Plain Fountains
  • Fountains
  • From Past to Future
  • Chapter 3.3 Body and Soul
  • Early Days
  • Crete
  • Egypt
  • The Greeks
  • The Israelites
  • Far Eastern Ablutions
  • Early Christians
  • The Romans and After
  • Urban Revival and New Patterns of Sanitation
  • The Bath-Precepts and Practice in Medieval Days
  • The Decline of the Bath
  • The Return to Respectability
  • Near Eastern Ablutions
  • Into the Twentieth Century
  • And Into the Twenty-First Century
  • Endword
  • Chapter 3.4 Water Quality
  • Introduction
  • What Hippocrates Preached
  • And What Frontinus Practiced
  • After the Romans
  • The English Experience
  • Perception Precedes Practice
  • The Analysis of Water
  • Social Philosophy
  • At the Turn of the Millennium
  • Chapter 3.5 Circles, Cycles and Cascades
  • A Word of Introduction
  • From Water to Wastewater
  • Ancient Greeks
  • Rome: the Cloaca Maxima and Some Lesser Sewers
  • Sewers and Society-the Underground Life of Paris
  • Note on Victor Hugo and the Sewers of Paris

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