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Hydraulic Societies

Hydraulic Societies is a theoretical construct in the field of Water History denoting a form of centralized socio-political organization in which state power and societal development are fundamentally sustained by the control and administration of large-scale irrigation and water management systems.

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45

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2017–2026

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Hydraulic Civilizations

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Publications

49

Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology

Yi‐Fu Tuan, Karl W. Butzer · Geographical Review · 1977 · 300 citations

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Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

Andrew Dawson · Journal of Asian and African Studies · 2018 · 247 citations

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Early hydraulic civilization in Egypt: A study in cultural ecology

Journal of Historical Geography · 1980 · 242 citations

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The Management of Late Andean Irrigation Systems on the North Coast of Peru

Patricia J. Netherly · American Antiquity · 1984 · 184 citations

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HYDRAULIC SOCIETY IN CEYLON

Edmund Leach · Past & Present · 1959 · 137 citations

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Authors

64

  1. DB
    David Blake

    Edith Cowan University, Australia

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  2. MZ
    Margreet Zwarteveen

    IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  3. DH
    David H. Price

    Saint Martin's University, United States

    2 publications · 103 citations

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  4. ES
    E Swyngedouw

    Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

    2 publications · 137 citations

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  5. HE
    Hans‐Dieter Evers

    University of Bonn, Germany

    2 publications · 107 citations

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Institutions

45

  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    84 citations

  2. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    137 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    110 citations

  4. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    174 citations

  5. Grinnell College

    Grinnell, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    24 citations

  6. Idaho State University

    Pocatello, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  7. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  8. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

    Makati City, Philippines

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    160 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Historical Geography

    3 publications · 285 citations

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  2. Past & Present

    2 publications · 190 citations

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  3. American Antiquity

    2 publications · 263 citations

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  4. World Archaeology

    2 publications · 72 citations

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  5. Études rurales

    2 publications · 37 citations

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