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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 régimes. 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.
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 polit...
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PD Dr. Christian Wieland ist Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt. Zur Zeit ist er Senior Visiting Research Fellow am St John's College, Oxford.
PD Dr. Christian Wieland ist Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt. Zur Zeit ist er Senior Visiting Research Fellow am St John's College, Oxford.
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