Download or read book Land Drainage and Irrigation written by Salvatore Ciriacono and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction by Italian scholar Ciriacono precedes this collection of articles by renowned water management historians. The articles were originally published in scholarly journals between 1948 and 1995, and are divided into four sections--ancient irrigation, irrigation in Europe and the Middle East, land drainage and reclamation in Europe, and irrigation in America and Asia. Specific topics include irrigation and land use in ancient Mesopotamia; some ancient agricultural achievements in the central Negev; the engineering works of John Grundy (1719-1793); surveying and hydraulic engineering of the pre-Colombian Chimu state, AD 900-1450; and water control in the Dongting Lake region during the Ming an Qing periods. All but one appear in English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR