Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia /

Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia / / Thomas F. Glick.

Of the communal institutions elaborated by medieval Spaniards, the most significant and longest-lived were the irrigation communities which the Muslims had established centuries earlier in the Valencian region. The objective of these remarkably democratic communities was justice and equity in water...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Glick, Thomas F.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1970
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.) :; 2 charts, 3 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 7 maps, 23 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Glossary
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Irrigation Communities of Medieval Valencia
  • I. The Huerta Environment
  • II. Irrigation Communities and Their Administration
  • III. Intracommunity Conflict and Its Resolution
  • IV. The City's Role in Irrigation Development
  • V. The Search for New Sources of Water
  • VI. Regional Arrangements
  • VII. The Huerta in Crisis
  • Part Two. Cultural Continuity in Irrigation
  • VIII. Arabs, Romans, or Christians? The Historiography of Spanish Irrigation in the Nineteenth Century
  • IX. The Classical Inheritance
  • X. Irrigation Administration in Al-Andalus: The S̩āh̩ib al-S̩āh̩iya
  • XI. Proportional Distribution and the Measuring of Water
  • XII. The Imprint of Islam upon the Terminology of Irrigation
  • XIII. Image and Reality of Cultural Change
  • Appendixes. Bibliography. Notes. Index
  • Appendix 1. Municipal Provisions for Road Maintenance, 1396
  • Appendix 2. Irrigation of Vineyards
  • Appendix 3. Crop Priorities in Time of Drought, 1376
  • Appendix 4. Regulations of the Water Company of Benidorm
  • Appendix 5. Rainfall and Temperature in Valencia
  • Appendix 6. Droughts and Floods in Medieval Valencia
  • Appendix 7. Plans for Hydraulic Wheel in Valencia to Irrigate Garden of the Lonja, 1529
  • Appendix 8. Division of the Barada River in 125 H. (742/743 A.D.)
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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