| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

John Hassan. A History of Water in Modern England and Wales. New York: Manchaster University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 214.

John Hassan has written a very remarkable book. Fine history, it is also reasoned philosophy, symbolized by the very clear analysis, for example, of the fate of integrated river-basin management since 1973, set in the context of the long and complex saga of water usage from just before the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Histories of water usage, supply, and management are rare. This book is remarkable for being interdisciplinary in the best sense. It meets scholarly standards. It has twelve pages of wide-ranging references and a fine index. But above all, it is readable. It also is balanced in that it distinguishes between the holistic concepts of water management and the realities of such applications in the wide range of regions in England and Wales, from the huge urbanized areas to the relatively stable rural or countryside areas. It also recognizes the race between the huge increase in need in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, and the struggles of science, medicine, public health concepts, and engineering to meet the tide of demands and to get a grip on possible futures. . . .

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