Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface - Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson
1. Historic Patterns of Mesopotamian Irrigation Agriculture - Robert McC. Adams
2. Violation of Fallow and Engineered Disaster in Mesopotamian Civilization - McGuire Gibson
3. Sassanian and Early Islamic Water-Control and Irrigation Systems on the Deh Luran Plain, Iran - James A. Neely
4. Irrigation and Society: The Iranian Plateau - Brian Spooner
5. Water Control in Terraced Rice-Field Agriculture in Southeastern Asia - J. E. Spencer
6. The System Nobody Knows: Village Irrigation in the Swiss Alps - Robert McC. Netting
7. Organizational Preadaptation to Irrigation: The Evolution of Early Water-Management Systems in Coastal Peru - M. Edward Moseley
8. Irrigation and Settlement Pattern: Preliminary Research Results from the North Coast of Peru - Ian Farrington
9. Conservation and Diversion: Water-Control Systems in the Anasazi Southwest - R. Gwinn Vivian
10. Irrigation and Moisture-Sensitive Periods: A Zapotec Case - Theodore E. Downing
11. The State's Use of Irrigation in Changing Peasant Society - Susan H. Lees
12. Irrigation, Conflict, and Politics: A Mexican Case - Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt
13. Irrigation Development and Population Pressure - Wayne Kappel
14. Comments on the Symposium From a Hydrologic Perspective - Martin M. Fogel
15. Comments on the Symposium From a Geographic Perspective - Chris Field
Index