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Out of the earth : civilization and the life of the soil / Daniel Hillel.
Author
Hillel, Daniel
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Format
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Language
English
Εdition
First paperback printing.
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.
©1991
Description
x, 321 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
S591 .H62 1992
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Soils
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Soil and civilization
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Water and civilization
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Water-supply
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Agriculture
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Summary note
"As the crucible of life, the source and final resting place of everything that grows, soil inspires reverence not only in the peasant who derives his daily bread from it, but also in the scientist who contemplates its meaning as the place where life and death meet and exchange vital energies. Out of the Earth is the culmination of the author's long career in conservation. This history of man's use and misuse of soil and water combines a description of the complex inner processes that form soil with a lyrical assertion of its powers and significance."--Publisher's description.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-310) and index.
Contents
Prologue
Man's role on God's earth
The fertile substrate
The vital fluid
The dynamic cycle
The primary producers
The tenuous balance
Human origins
The agricultural transformation
Early farming in the Near East
Silt and salt in Mesopotamia
The gifts of the Nile
Husbandry of the rain-fed uplands
The desert rejoiced
Tapping the underground waters
Farming the wetlands of Mesoamerica
The advent of chemical fertilizers
Saline seeps in Australia and North America
The promise and peril of irrigation
Accelerated erosion
The "sorrow of China"
Deforesting the Earth
Man-made deserts
The plight of Africa
Endangered wetlands
Sweet water and bitter
Water management in Israel
Abusing the living filter
A global accounting
A case for conditional optimism.
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Civilization and the life of the soil
ISBN
0520080807 ((alk. paper))
9780520080805 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
92010461
OCLC
25546106
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