Water and power in past societies / edited by Emily Holt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political ecology of Chinampa landscapes in the basin of Mexico / Christopher T. Morehart -- Irrigation and social organization: a Longue Durée perspective from the Jordan Valley / Eva Kaptijn -- Water management by mobile pastoralists in the Middle East / Emily Hammer -- Water and workshops: inequality among mining sites in ancient Laurion (Greece) / Kim Van Liefferinge -- From elite villas to public spaces: the first decorative fountains in Ancient Rome / Brenda Longfellow -- From urban oasis to desert hinterland: the decline of Petra's water system: the case of the Petra garden and pool complex / Leigh-Ann Bedal -- Spatial archaeology, hydrology and the historical dynamics of water in ancient Southern Arabia (Yemen and Oman) / Michael Harrower -- The sea and Bronze Age transformations / Christopher Prescott, Anette Sand-Eriksen and Knut Ivar Austvoll -- Southeast Asian maritime power, 17th century spice wars, and Tiworo's neglected fortifications / Jennifer L. Gaynor -- The power of coastal resources: assessing maritime economic opportunity in the Roman Mediterranean / Justin Leidwanger -- Rivers as material infrastructure: a legacy from the past to the future / Matt Edgeworth -- Geologies of belonging: the political ecology of water in Central Anatolia / Ö̈mür Harmansah -- Some perspectives on the frequency of significant, historically forcing, drought and subsistence crises in Anatolia and region / Sturt W. Manning -- A framework for facing the past / Vernon L Scarborough.