About this title: This study of the social and cultural "conquest" of water in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries describes and analyzes the ways in which water was gradually turned into a manageable resource and employed for the purposes of hygiene and for a variety of other uses in everyday social life. Goubert traces the conquest of water back to the development of a body of scientific and technical knowledge about water and to the implementation of this knowledge in a range of practical policies. The aim of these policies was to raise the health standards of the population, an objective which was ...
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Description: Good. Ex library hardback with D/J, usual stamps/markings. 1989 publication translated by Andrew Wilson-D/J lightly faded with some tanning to page edges otherwise in good overall condition. Will despatch within 24 hours. read more
Edition: First English Translation
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity Press, England
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780745605081ISBN:0745605087
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very good. Text very clean. book described: ' 'The Conquest of Water' genuinely breaks new ground...It is a bold and ambitious work which is bound to make a splash. ' 300 pages. A very clean copy. read more
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