...Jung-Pang Lo Ming-tai hai-yün chi yün-ho ti yen-chiu (A Study of Transportation by Sea and the Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty) . By Wu Chi-Hua . Taipei : The Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica , 1961 . Special Publication No. 43. 348 . Map. Copyright ©...

...Brian Caton Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 From the East India Company to the Suez Canal . Vol. 1 of Archives of Empire. Edited by Barbara Harllow and Mia Carter . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xxiii , 802 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper...

...Elizabeth Whitcombe Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Society . By Ian Stone . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . xiv, 374 pp. Illustrations, Glossary of Indian Terms, Bibliography, Index. $59.50. Copyright ©...

...Norman Uphoff Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia . By Robert Chambers . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . xxviii, 279 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 958 THE JOURNAL...

... Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826. By J A N E K A T E L E O N A R D . Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996. x, 331 pp. $25.00 (paper). The flood waters were rising on Hongze Lake and the Yellow River in the autumn of 1824. Empty grain boats an the Grand...

... the story outside the field of Asian studies. But the central section of the book is useful for its vivid, documented picture of the de- velopment of Indian thought at a crucial period. New Yor\ City BEATRICE PITNEY LAMB Evaluation of Damodar Canals (1959-60); A Study of the Benefits of Irrigation...

..., large-scale, and sustained national projects to construct roads, canals, reservoirs, and buildings throughout China; and a conscious and conscientious effort to include archaeology as an important part of the political education of the people. This sudden flood of new data—most hitherto unknown...

... of inundation canal construction strongly influenced localized patterns of agriculture, opening areas away from the direct action of river floods to regular irrigation when the rivers filled the canals in the hot spring and summer months. We know relatively little about historical patterns of canal construction...

...-China Herald , Sept. 24, 1859. 26 Ibid.. 55; CR, 1 (1832–1833), 38–39. 25 Morse, 343; Gandar, 75. 24 Elias Ney , “ Notes on a Portion of the Old Bed of the Yellow River and the Water Supply of the Grand Canal ,” JNCBRAS , 4 ( 1867 ), 80 – 86 . 23...

... Politics in Rural India . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Deccan Canals Financial Improvement Committee (DCFIC) . 1932 . Report . Bombay : Government of Bombay . Deccan Sugar Factories Association . 1967 . Silver Jubilee Souvenir . Bombay : G. Claridge . Dewey Clive...

.... Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 1 Cf . Han-sheng Ch'üan , T'ang Sung ti-kuo yü y¨n-ho (The T'ang and Sung Empires and the Canal), ( Nanking , 1947 ) , passim . 2 Yule Henry and Cordier Henri , The book of Ser Marco Polo...

... of Transportation by Sea and the Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty). By Wu CHI-HUA. Taipei: The Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica, 1961. Special Publication No. 43. 348. Map. In this monograph on the direct bearing of transportation on the vitality and decline of the Ming empire, the main theme...

... , Ch'ing-tai t' ung-shih ( Shanghai , 1935 ), 2: 365 ; Hinton Harold C. , “Grain Transport Via the Grand Canal, 1845–1901,” Papers on China ( Cambridge, Mass. , 1950 ), 4: 45 . 2 Ch'ing shih kao (Peking, 1928 ) , Ho-ch'ū chih 1: 1 – 2 b. 1 Ming shih (T'ung...

... intervention were right to do so; lacking economic power, they had to attempt^to rely on political power. JAMES G. SCOVILLE University of Minnesota Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Society. By IAN STONE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv, 374...

... study of south Indian cultural history. PAMELA G. PRICE Universitetet i Oslo Managing Canal Irrigation: Practical Analysis from South Asia. By R O B E R T CHAMBERS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxviii, 279 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $19-95 (paper). Canal irrigation is "shrouded in mists...

... requirements. Chapter 7 tackles a vexed question: How useful was the canal as a protection against famine? The canal, as Stone says, boosted the production of wheat, and by the end of the nineteenth century the wheat growers of the Upper Doab so profited from scarcity trade that they openly prayed for its...

... of the nineteenth century with the construction of the vast system of irrigation canals spreading across the face of North India. Elizabeth Whitcombe examines in all its aspects, fiscal and legal as well as social and ecological, this "great imperial drive for modernization." Unlike most previous writers on Indian...

... from its source to its mouth (with particular attention to the middle reaches and Shanghai), and gracefully describe the Three Gorges. On social time Van Slyke ranges far from the river itself. He describes in some detail the All-Rivers Weir and the Miracle Canals that facilitated north-south movement...

..., reinforces the point that national destinies may increasingly rest in the hands of technicians capable of translating physical assets into human values. Before Indian independence Mr. Gulhati made a distinguished career working on dams and canals in the world's largest irrigated region, the valley...

... the value per acre of the land (sale price) in both districts and for Ludhiana also the rental for unirrigated land, land irrigated by private tube well, by state tube well and by canal from the Bhakra-Nangal project. What is most interesting in his analysis is his attempt to compare the benefits and costs...