History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula

• The Thirsty but Educated Iberian Peninsula. As a Means of Introduction.- The Water Supply and Sewage Networks in Sixteenth-century Lisbon: Drawing the Renaissance City.- Toledo: The Thirsty City.- Water Supply Management in Seville, 1248-1800.- Water for Madrid: The Problems of Water Supply in a Pre-Industrial Capital.- Thirsting for Efficiency: Technological and Transaction-Cost Explanations for the Municipalisation of Water Supply.- Engineering, Geology and the Water Supply to Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Expertise and Innovation.- Technology of Grandeur: Early Modern Aqueducts in Portugal.- Dams in the Renaissance Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula.- Water Communities on the Northern Slopes of the Guadarrama Mountain Range.- Landscape and Water Heritage in Mountainous Areas: From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Northern Portugal to Southern Morocco.- The Technical and Social Scope of Irrigation in the Algarve.- The Aesthetical Application of Water in Iberian Gardens.- Aranjuez and Hydraulic Engineering: Public Utility, Leisure Utility.- The Water that Passes through Alcoa & Baça: The Hydraulic System of the Monastery of Alcobaça.- Noras, Norias and Technology-of-Use.- Beyond Stevin and Galileo: Seventeenth-century Hydrostatics in the Jesuit Class of the Sphere.- The Making of a Hydraulics Expert: Estevão Dias Cabral (1734-1811).

“Milieu engendered this new and very interesting book devoted to water management in the early modern and modern Iberian Peninsula … . Despite the variety of case studies and the slightly different research approaches, this collection reads well as a whole, and the main objective (water management) is a consistent thread throughout the various contributions. At the same time, the organization into three sections helps readers orient themselves and facilitates comparison between the different case studies.” (Matteo Di Tullio, Technology and Culture, Vol. 62 (4), October, 2021)