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The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300-1800
Andre E. Guillerme
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Description for The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300-1800
paperback. Series: Environmental History Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; KCM; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Water is essential to human life, as mythology, religion, and history alike have recognised. Its availability has been a key determinant in patterns of settlement and agriculture, but its crucial role in shaping the layout and economic development of cities has not always been recognised. This structuralist history, first published in French in 1983, traces sixteen centuries of hydrographic technological change and urban development in eighteen cities of northern France.
André E. Guillerme’s focus on the uses of water clearly illustrates the interaction of military, economic, technological, political, intellectual, and symbolic factors in urbanization. He skilfully utilizes data from ... Read more
Water is essential to human life, as mythology, religion, and history alike have recognised. Its availability has been a key determinant in patterns of settlement and agriculture, but its crucial role in shaping the layout and economic development of cities has not always been recognised. This structuralist history, first published in French in 1983, traces sixteen centuries of hydrographic technological change and urban development in eighteen cities of northern France.
André E. Guillerme’s focus on the uses of water clearly illustrates the interaction of military, economic, technological, political, intellectual, and symbolic factors in urbanization. He skilfully utilizes data from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Environmental History Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623490652
SKU
V9781623490652
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About Andre E. Guillerme
André E. Guillerme, urban engineer and historian, is professor of History of Technology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris. His research deals with history of industrial landscape, construction history, and technical gesture (19th & 20th century), specialising in the study of urban change in industrialised nations.
Reviews for The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300-1800
“Guillerme’s work provides us with a fascinating insight into western history through a survey of the town-water relationship in all its multifarious implications over a wide period.” - Journal of European Economic History “The author, an engineer rather than an historian, provides a provocative thesis concerning changes in man-made waterways in eighteen cities of the Paris basin.” - American ... Read more