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Preface xi
Author's Note xxix
Part I Canals, Furrows, and Rice Paddies
1 The Elixir of Life 3
2 Farmers and Furrows 21
3 "Whoever Has a-Channel Has a Wife" 39
4 Hohokam: "Something That Is All Gone" 55
5 The Power of the Waters 77
Part II Waters from Afar
6 Landscapes of Enlil 99
7 The Lands of Enki 116
8 "I Caused a Canal to Be Cut" 134
9 The Waters of Zeus 153
10 Aquae Romae 176
Part III Cisterns and Monsoons
11 Waters That Purify 201
12 China's Sorrow 222
Part IV Ancient American Hydrologists
13 The Water Lily Lords 247
14 Triumphs of Gravity 267
Part V Gravity and Beyond
15 The Waters of Islam 291
16 "Lifting Power … More Certain than That of a Hundred Men" 310
17 Mastery? 330
Acknowledgments 349
Notes 351
Index 371
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