Titre :
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A history of dams,the useful pyramids
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Auteurs :
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N. Schnitter
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Type de document :
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ouvrage
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Editeur :
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Rotterdam, NLD : A.A. Balkema, 1994
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-90-5410-149-9
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Format :
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266 p.
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Langues:
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= Anglais
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Mots-clés:
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HISTOIRE
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BARRAGE
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TECHNOLOGIE
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Résumé :
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The careful management of the avalable water resources was important since people became sedentary,i.e.since thousands of years.The construction of dams reaches equally far back.This book traces their history from these early times up to the present for the first time on a global scale,from ancient Greece to Mesoamerica and from Yemen to China.Special chapters are devoted to the Roman empire,the Moslem world and medieval eastern Asia.After an account of the developments in postmedieval Europe the evolution of modern worldwide dam technology is described in detail.As dam designer in a large international firm the author was able to participate in these developments for almost 40 years.
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