Contents:
1. Introduction
Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish
MESOPOTAMIA
2. Intensified Large-scale Irrigation as an Aspect of Imperial Policy: Strategies of Statecraft on the Late Sasanian Mesopotamian Plain.
Robert McC. Adams
3. From Highland to Desert: The Organization and Landscape of Irrigation in Southern Arabia
Tony Wilkinson
ASIA
4. Intensification as Situated Process: Landscape History and Collapse
Kathleen Morrison
5. Water Supply, Labor Organization and Land Ownership in Indus Floodplain Agricultural Systems
Heather M.-L. Miller
EUROPE
6. The Barren and the Fertile: Central and Local Intensification Strategies across Variable Landscapes.
Tina L Thurston
7. Irrigation in Medieval Spain: A Personal Narrative across a Generation
Thomas F. Glick
OCEANIA
8. Agricultural Intensification: A Polynesian Perspective
Patrick V. Kirch
MESOAMERICA
9. The Roles of Ritual and Technology in Mesoamerican Water Management
Joyce Marcus
10. The Economic Underpinnings of Prehispanic Zapotec Civilization: Small-scale Production, Economic Interdependence, and Market Exchange.
Gary M. Feinman
11. Agricultural Intensification, Water and Political Power in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Lisa Lucero
SOUTH AMERICA
12. Agricultural Innovation, Intensification, and Sociopolitical Development: the Case of Highland Irrigation Agriculture on the Pacific Andean Watersheds.
Ryan Williams
13. Intensification, Political Economy, and the Farming Community: In Defense of a Bottom-Up Perspective of the Past
Clark Erickson
14. Prehispanic agricultural strategies of intensification in the Titicaca Basin of Peru and Bolivia
Charles Stanish