John Broich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Broich |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Broich |
| SIGNATURE | BROICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tom Crook. Governing Systems
System-making is what made modernity. And quintessential modernizing systems were the public health systems that crystallized from the 1840s when the category and problem of “public health” itself crystallized. From the 1840s, systems proliferated as England connected to growing, urbanizing, and industrializing communities: systems for monitoring and measuring epidemics, for hurrying poisonous substances away from towns, for purifying bodies, and…
British Water Policy in Mandate Palestine
During the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, British water policies combined with Zionist groups' settlement and 'development' activities to drastically change the waterscape in the region. The changing water conditions had dire consequences for rural Arabs' ability to carry on farming, support livestock, and undertake water-dependent industries. The roots of British water policy lay in part in conceptions of the so-called Arab 'race'. …
Colonizing the Thames
Colonizing the Thames John Broich In the first half of the twentieth century, a cadre of colonial engineers and officials promoted a grand damming and canalization project for a major imperial river. Scholars have begun to uncover the significance of such imperial water control projects undertaken in the name of efficiency, revenue, social uplift. Christopher V. Hill, for example, describes Britain's efforts to dam and control the Kosi River in n…
Engineering the Empire
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Jonathan Schneer, The Thames
The Wasting of Wolin
This medieval environmental history examines the tenth-century industrial and trade town of Wolin which grew rapidly on an island immediately off the northwestern coast of Poland. It arose in an environment incapable of supporting its population of 8000 - the largest population in the Baltic during the period. Palaeobotanical evidence records the island's large-scale deforestation and the rapid deterioration of its soils. Having outstripped its l…
Engineering the Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
British Water Policy in Mandate Palestine
During the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, British water policies combined with Zionist groups' settlement and 'development' activities to drastically change the waterscape in the region. The changing water conditions had dire consequences for rural Arabs' ability to carry on farming, support livestock, and undertake water-dependent industries. The roots of British water policy lay in part in conceptions of the so-called Arab 'race'. …
The Wasting of Wolin
This medieval environmental history examines the tenth-century industrial and trade town of Wolin which grew rapidly on an island immediately off the northwestern coast of Poland. It arose in an environment incapable of supporting its population of 8000 - the largest population in the Baltic during the period. Palaeobotanical evidence records the island's large-scale deforestation and the rapid deterioration of its soils. Having outstripped its l…
The Wasting of Wolin
This medieval environmental history examines the tenth-century industrial and trade town of Wolin which grew rapidly on an island immediately off the northwestern coast of Poland. It arose in an environment incapable of supporting its population of 8000 - the largest population in the Baltic during the period. Palaeobotanical evidence records the island's large-scale deforestation and the rapid deterioration of its soils. Having outstripped its l…
Jonathan Schneer, The Thames
Engineering the Empire
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Colonizing the Thames
Colonizing the Thames John Broich In the first half of the twentieth century, a cadre of colonial engineers and officials promoted a grand damming and canalization project for a major imperial river. Scholars have begun to uncover the significance of such imperial water control projects undertaken in the name of efficiency, revenue, social uplift. Christopher V. Hill, for example, describes Britain's efforts to dam and control the Kosi River in n…
British Water Policy in Mandate Palestine
During the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, British water policies combined with Zionist groups' settlement and 'development' activities to drastically change the waterscape in the region. The changing water conditions had dire consequences for rural Arabs' ability to carry on farming, support livestock, and undertake water-dependent industries. The roots of British water policy lay in part in conceptions of the so-called Arab 'race'. …
Tom Crook. Governing Systems
System-making is what made modernity. And quintessential modernizing systems were the public health systems that crystallized from the 1840s when the category and problem of “public health” itself crystallized. From the 1840s, systems proliferated as England connected to growing, urbanizing, and industrializing communities: systems for monitoring and measuring epidemics, for hurrying poisonous substances away from towns, for purifying bodies, and…
Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Geology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Oceanography (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)