Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia

by Thomas F. Glick

Of the communal institutions elaborated by medieval Spaniards, the most significant and longest-lived were the irrigation communities which the Muslims had established centuries earlier in the Valencian region.

The objective of these remarkably democratic communities was justice and equity in water distribution; and the irrigators succeeded in combining traditional rules with consensual authority to maintain their systems with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281799
• ISBN13: 9780674281790
• Release Date: February 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"