The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula : Between the 16th and 19th Centuries. 1st ed. 2020

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edited by Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Carmen Toribio Marín

出版情報:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2020

著者名:

• Duarte Rodrigues, Ana.
• Toribio Marín, Carmen.
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シリーズ名:

Trends in the History of Science ;

ISBN:

9783030340612 [3030340619]    

注記:

The Thirsty but Educated Iberian Peninsula. As a Means of Introduction -- The Water Supply and Sewage Networks in Sixteenth-century Lisbon: Drawing the Renaissance City -- Toledo: The Thirsty City -- Water Supply Management in Seville, 1248-1800 -- Water for Madrid: The Problems of Water Supply in a Pre-Industrial Capital -- Thirsting for Efficiency: Technological and Transaction-Cost Explanations for the Municipalisation of Water Supply -- Engineering, Geology and the Water Supply to Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Expertise and Innovation -- Technology of Grandeur: Early Modern Aqueducts in Portugal -- Dams in the Renaissance Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula -- Water Communities on the Northern Slopes of the Guadarrama Mountain Range -- Landscape and Water Heritage in Mountainous Areas: From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Northern Portugal to Southern Morocco -- The Technical and Social Scope of Irrigation in the Algarve -- The Aesthetical Application of Water in Iberian Garden
This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean. What water devices were found? What were the models for these devices? How were they distributed in the villas and monastic enclosures? What impact did hydraulic theoretical knowledge have on these water systems, and how could these systems impact on hydraulic technology? Guided by these questions, this book covers the history of water in the most significant cities, the role of water in landscape transformation, the irrigation systems and water devices in gardens and villas, and, lastly, the theoretical and educational background on water management and hydraulics in the Iberian Peninsula between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Historiography on water management in the territory that is today Spain has highlighted the region’s role as a mediator between the Islamic masters of water a

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