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



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Autore: Teisch Jessica B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Engineering nature [[electronic resource] ] : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0351-9
0-8078-7801-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791424803321
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