Water historyPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00240-w
A. Greco
{"title":"The taming of the wilderness: marshes as an economic resource in 3rd millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia","authors":"A. Greco","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00240-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00240-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 1","pages":"23-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00240-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41818454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00246-4
L. Mori
{"title":"“Water and power”: what is left? An introduction to the workshop “Waterscapes: new perspectives on hydrocultural landscapes in the ancient Near East”","authors":"L. Mori","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00246-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00246-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 1","pages":"11-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00246-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43214932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00245-5
Ariel M. Bagg
{"title":"The unconquerable country: the Babylonian marshes in the Neo-Assyrian sources","authors":"Ariel M. Bagg","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00245-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00245-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 1","pages":"57-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00245-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52745093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-10-29DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00260-6
Fiona Williamson
{"title":"Responding to extremes: managing urban water scarcity in the late nineteenth-century Straits Settlements.","authors":"Fiona Williamson","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00260-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00260-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1877, the major towns of the Straits Settlements-Singapore, George Town, Penang Island and Malacca-suffered a drought of exceptional magnitude. The drought's natural instigator was the El Niño phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, a climatic phenomenon then not understood by contemporary observers. The 1877 event has been explored in some depth for countries including India, China and Australia. Its impact on Southeast Asia however is less well-known and the story of how the event unfolded in Singapore and Malaysia has not been told. This paper explores how the contemporary British government responded to the drought, arguing that its impact on hydraulic management was at best minimal yet, it did have impact on other areas, such as forest reservation with the hope of preserving future rainfall. It also highlights how, in contrast to studies on urban water plans in other British Asian colonies, the colonial authorities in the Straits Settlements had a far less coherent and meaningful relationship with water in their town planning schemes. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"251-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00260-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38566949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-18DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00259-z
Sophie Barbaix, Alishir Kurban, Philippe De Maeyer, Xi Chen, Jean Bourgeois
{"title":"The use of historical sources in a multi-layered methodology for karez research in Turpan, China.","authors":"Sophie Barbaix, Alishir Kurban, Philippe De Maeyer, Xi Chen, Jean Bourgeois","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00259-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00259-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we will present an overview of possible research methods to handle historical sources, in the specific case of karez landscapes. A karez system is an underground water collection system, prevalent in the Turpan basin of China. Sources and the associated methodology have become more important today, because of contemporary issues such as modernisation, urbanisation and agricultural expansion. These problems make it harder to read the landscape, which is why we have to start extracting our data from maps, reports, photographs, and satellite imagery. We will give a short overview of sources, each with an explanation of their processing method. Despite certain cautions that should be taken into account, these methods clearly complement the current state of knowledge on the Turpan karez. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"281-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00259-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38632459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4
Kristina Chomiak, David Connell, Devin Cooley, Hannah Saxena, Sydney Van Winkle, Kaitlin Stack Whitney
{"title":"Rochester's rivers, lake, and waste: teaching local environmental history using water case studies.","authors":"Kristina Chomiak, David Connell, Devin Cooley, Hannah Saxena, Sydney Van Winkle, Kaitlin Stack Whitney","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a non-majors upper-level undergraduate environmental history course focused on the Laurentian Great Lakes, students researched and wrote micro-histories of the Rochester, NY area. Many were focused on water-quantity, quality, recreation, and pollution. This article briefly explains the approach and its potential applications to other interdisciplinary water courses. Then five of the original micro-water history cases are presented. It concludes with the lessons learned as a class and for teaching local water history in the future incorporating the previous class' findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"345-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38372880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-10-31DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00262-4
Robert Shields Mevissen
{"title":"Forged in the Floods: Transnational Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy.","authors":"Robert Shields Mevissen","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00262-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00262-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Riparian communities in the Habsburg monarchy experienced perennial flooding with tragedy often eliciting heroics and generosity. What made these empathetic responses even more admirable was their juxtaposition with the antipathy that nationalist groups expressed in the political realm in the monarchy's final decades. Studying government and public responses to flooding in the nineteenth century demonstrates the critical link between empire and environment which forged transnational communities through floods of adversity, charity and cooperation. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"265-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00262-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38577851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00263-3
Erik Mostert
{"title":"Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea.","authors":"Erik Mostert","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00263-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00263-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to a popular Dutch theory, water has shaped the Dutch national identity. The Dutch fight against the water would have stimulated perseverance, ingenuity, cooperation and an egalitarian and democratic society. Despite the long water management history of the Netherlands, water became an important part of the self-images of the nation only in the eighteenth Century. In the 1780s the idea that the Dutch had wrung their country from the sea became popular. Initially, this idea was especially popular among the (proto-)liberal opposition, who emphasised the importance of the nation and its achievements. By the end of the nineteenth Century, water had become a national symbol for orthodox Calvinists, Roman Catholics and Socialists too, despite their different views on the nation. Whenever there was fast social change, political turmoil or external threats, as in the late eighteenth Century, the 1930s and 1940s and since the 1990s, the link between water and the Netherlands was used to promote national pride and unity and stimulate action. This link has also been used to promote specific hydraulic works, but it is a topic for further research how widespread and effective this practice was. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"311-329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00263-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38632458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water historyPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s12685-020-00258-0
Siegfried Evens
{"title":"A complicated way of boiling water: nuclear safety in water history.","authors":"Siegfried Evens","doi":"10.1007/s12685-020-00258-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00258-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Water and nuclear reactors are much closer intertwined than usually perceived. First, water is the source of the steam that drives the turbines of most nuclear power plants around the world. Next to generating electricity, water is the key to preventing accidents in nuclear plants. As uranium keeps on generating heat when the power plant is turned off, its core needs to be cooled continuously. This crucial connection between water and nuclear is focus of the paper. Nuclear safety will appear as relying heavily on earlier knowledge, institutions, and regulatory frameworks, which were related to water. The three parts of this article discuss technologies, actors and risks of nuclear power. Studying water as a resource in a much broader sense than being boiled for steam shows how determining water is to make nuclear power function. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.</p>","PeriodicalId":75314,"journal":{"name":"Water history","volume":"12 3","pages":"331-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12685-020-00258-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38632455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}