Engineering nature [[electronic resource] ] : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch

• Autore: Teisch Jessica B
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.70973
• Soggetto topico: Water resources development - United States - History; Mining engineering - United States - History; Water resources development - History; Mining engineering - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 proj
• Titolo autorizzato: Engineering nature
• ISBN: 1-4696-0351-9; 0-8078-7801-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791424803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II