03081nam 2200661 a 450 991045856190332120200520144314.01-4696-0351-90-8078-7801-4(CKB)2560000000052217(EBL)655819(OCoLC)714737380(SSID)ssj0000468812(PQKBManifestationID)11324933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468812(PQKBWorkID)10508193(PQKB)11592402(StDuBDS)EDZ0000243973(MiAaPQ)EBC655819(OCoLC)703233903(MdBmJHUP)muse23538(Au-PeEL)EBL655819(CaPaEBR)ebr10442130(CaONFJC)MIL930168(EXLCZ)99256000000005221720100716d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEngineering nature[electronic resource] water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise /Jessica B. TeischChapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-7176-1 0-8078-3443-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments.Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions. In the frontiers of Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Palestine--semiarid regions that shared a need for water to support growing populations and economies--California water engineers applied their expertise in irrigation and mining projWater resources developmentUnited StatesHistoryMining engineeringUnited StatesHistoryWater resources developmentHistoryMining engineeringHistoryElectronic books.Water resources developmentHistory.Mining engineeringHistory.Water resources developmentHistory.Mining engineeringHistory.333.70973Teisch Jessica B1033638MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458561903321Engineering nature2452296UNINA